Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 91
He bade them be good and quiet, And pray to escape from drowning; They whooped and hurrahed to mock him.
Who acts: water, RATTLESNAKES · What happens: bade, be, pray, escape, drown, whoop · To what, where: RATTLESNAKES, water
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 (water, RATTLESNAKES), 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 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | 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 bade | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quiet | cc |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pray | cc |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 escape | mark |
| 12 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pray | xcomp |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 drowning | mark |
| 14 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 escape | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 whooped | punct |
| 16 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 whooped | nsubj |
| 17 | whooped | whoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hurrahed | cc |
| 19 | hurrahed | hurrah | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 whooped | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 mock | mark |
| 21 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hurrahed | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mock | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | water | RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | water not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | water not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pray | present | water not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | escape | to-infinitive | water not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drown | gerund | water not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | whoop speech: other | past | RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | hurrah | past | RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | mock | to-infinitive | RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake not said here | water | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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