Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
Therefore the elder said, To test his brother’s truth: “The feather of an owl Is the one thing on earth Which e’er can end my life.”
Who acts: elder, feather, one thing · What happens: say, test, be, end · To what, where: truth, one thing, life · 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 (elder, feather, one thing), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 elder | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 test | punct |
| 6 | To | to | PART | _ | 7 test | mark |
| 7 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 truth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 test | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 feather | det |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thing | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 owl | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 owl | det |
| 18 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feather | nmod |
| 19 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thing | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 thing | nummod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nsubj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 earth | case |
| 24 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thing | conj |
| 25 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 26 e’er | det |
| 26 | e’er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 earth | obj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 end | aux |
| 28 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 life | nmod:poss |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elder | therefore property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | test | to-infinitive | elder's brother's truth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the feather of a owl | the one thing and earth which e’er | earth which e’er conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | end in a quote | can | the one thing and earth which e’er | my life | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality |
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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