Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
Now the second of the three, A reckless amorous youth Yet who never could succeed In winning women’s love, When asked what he would have Said: “I would win my way To many maidens’ hearts!”
Who acts: reckless amorous youth, sound, women · What happens: not succeed, win, ask, say, love · To what, where: love, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (reckless amorous youth, sound, women), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 second | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 three | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 second | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 three | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 9 | reckless | reckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 10 | amorous | amorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 three | appos |
| 12 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 youth | advmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 succeed | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 succeed | advmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeed | aux |
| 16 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 youth | parataxis |
| 17 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 winning | mark |
| 18 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 succeed | advcl |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 women | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 winning | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 23 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 asked | advmod |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 love | acl:relcl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 asked | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 Said | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 Said | aux |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 Said | aux |
| 29 | Said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 win | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 win | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 win | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 win | aux |
| 34 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 succeed | conj |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 win | obj |
| 37 | To | to | ADP | _ | 41 hearts | case |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 maidens | amod |
| 39 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 39 maidens | case |
| 41 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 win | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 youth | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 youth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not succeed | could | a reckless amorous youth | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | win | gerund | a reckless amorous youth not said here | women's love | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | participle | women's love | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | would · perfect | sound | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | win in a quote | would | sound | my way | to many maidens's hearts | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | love | women | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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