Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 7

And therefore he agreed To tell Malsum the Wolf The secret of his death, If he the younger born Would tell him in return The secret of his own.

Who acts: Wolf, secret · What happens: agree, tell, bear, die · To what, where: secret, Wolf, Malsum, return · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, secret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 agreed	cc
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 agreed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	To	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 agreed	xcomp
7	Malsum	Malsum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Wolf	det
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	iobj
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 secret	det
11	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 death	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 death	nmod:poss
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 secret	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	22 tell	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tell	det
19	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 tell	advcl
20	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 younger	xcomp
21	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 return	case
25	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obl
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 secret	det
27	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 secret	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Wolf				therefore property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here	the secret of Wolf's death	the Wolf		Malsum obj	tree rules
3	bear	participle	the secret of Wolf's own not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	would	Wolf	the secret of Wolf's own	Malsum	return		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient secret=Topic
5	die		Wolf					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 7

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 7