Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

When all the land had heard That the Master would grant a wish To any who would seek him, Three Indians resolved That they would try this thing.

Who acts: land, Master, Three Indians, Indians · What happens: hear, grant, seek, resolve, try · To what, where: That, wish, any, Master, thing

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, Master, Three Indians, Indians), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 land	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 grant	advcl
7	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 heard	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Master	det
9	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grant	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grant	aux
11	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wish	det
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grant	obj
14	To	to	ADP	_	15 any	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 grant	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 seek	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 seek	aux
18	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 any	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seek	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 resolved	punct
21	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Indians	compound
22	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 resolved	nsubj
23	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grant	parataxis
24	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 resolved	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 try	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 try	aux
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 resolved	ccomp
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 thing	det
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 try	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	all land	That		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	grant	would	the Master	a wish	to any goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wish=Theme to any=Goal
3	seek	would		Master	who nsubj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	resolve	past	Three Indians	That		tree rules
5	try	would	Indians = indian	this thing		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 15

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 15