Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
And unto him likewise The Master was truly kind Sending Marten into the woods To seek for a certain root Which, when eaten by any one, Conferred the mystic power Of making the wondrous sound.
Who acts: Master, certain root, mystic power · What happens: be, send, seek, eat, confer, make · To what, where: Marten, woods, mystic power, wondrous sound
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, certain root, mystic power), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 him | cc |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 9 kind | advmod |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Master | det |
| 6 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | cop |
| 8 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 9 kind | advmod |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 him | conj |
| 10 | Sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kind | xcomp |
| 11 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sending | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Sending | obl |
| 15 | To | to | PART | _ | 16 seek | mark |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Sending | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 root | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 root | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 root | amod |
| 20 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seek | obl |
| 21 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 eaten | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eaten | punct |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 eaten | mark |
| 24 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 root | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eaten | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Conferred | punct |
| 29 | Conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 eaten | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 power | det |
| 31 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 power | amod |
| 32 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Conferred | obj |
| 33 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 making | mark |
| 34 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 power | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sound | det |
| 36 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sound | amod |
| 37 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 making | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Master | kind, likewise, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | the Master not said here | Marten | the woods | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marten=Theme | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the Master not said here | for a certain root | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for root=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | participle | a certain root | by any one | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | confer | participle | a certain root not said here | the mystic power | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | the mystic power not said here | the wondrous sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
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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