Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 31
This was a wondrous cry Which the sorcerers of yore Uttered to gladden hearts, But now that the art is lost.
Who acts: This, wondrous cry · What happens: be, sorcerer, utter, gladden, lose · To what, where: wondrous cry, sorcerers, hearts, art
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 (This, wondrous cry), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cry | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 4 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | amod |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sorcerers | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sorcerers | det |
| 8 | sorcerers | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cry | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 yore | case |
| 10 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorcerers | nmod |
| 11 | Uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sorcerers | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gladden | mark |
| 13 | gladden | gladden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Uttered | xcomp |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gladden | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lost | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lost | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 lost | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 art | det |
| 20 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cry | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a wondrous cry | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sorcerer | a wondrous cry | of yore | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | participle | the sorcerers not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | gladden | to-infinitive | hearts | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lose | present · passive | the art | now | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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