Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

Now the third who had come with these Was a gay and handsome youth, Yet very foolish withal Since he cared for nothing whatever Save to make the Indians laugh, And to cut a figure with jests At every gathering.

Who acts: Master, Indians · What happens: come, care, make, laugh, cut · To what, where: figure, gathering

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 (Master, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 third	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 third	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	14 youth	case
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 youth	nsubj
9	Was	Be	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 youth	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 youth	det
11	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 youth	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 handsome	cc
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gay	conj
14	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 withal	punct
16	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	19 withal	cc
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 foolish	advmod
18	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 withal	amod
19	withal	withal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 third	conj
20	Since	since	SCONJ	_	22 cared	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cared	nsubj
22	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 withal	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 nothing	case
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 cared	obl
25	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 Save	det:predet
26	Save	Save	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 nothing	appos
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cared	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Indians	det
30	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 laugh	nsubj
31	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 make	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cut	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 cut	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	35 cut	mark
35	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 third	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 figure	det
37	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cut	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 jests	case
39	jests	jest	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 cut	obl
40	At	at	ADP	_	42 gathering	case
41	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	42 gathering	det
42	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cut	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 third	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect				with a gay youth these Was; who nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	care	past	Master			for nothing	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	Master not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	laugh	present	the Indians				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cut	to-infinitive		a figure	every gathering	with jests	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Patient with jest=Instrument

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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The tree

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 29