Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 90

He told them that the water Would rise o’er the heads of all; They said, “Should this come to pass, We shall all be very wet.”

Who acts: man, water, RATTLESNAKES, this, We · What happens: tell, rise, say, come, pass, be · To what, where: RATTLESNAKES · 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 (man, water, RATTLESNAKES, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 rise	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rise	nsubj
7	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rise	aux
8	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
9	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	11 heads	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heads	det
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rise	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 heads	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wet	punct
25	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wet	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 wet	aux
27	all	all	ADV	_	30 wet	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 wet	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 wet	advmod
30	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 come	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rise not said to happen	would	the water		o'er the heads of all	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	should	this			tree rules
5	pass in a quote	to-infinitive	this not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is in a quote	shall	We		all, wet property	tree rules

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 90