Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 34
But when it was bestowed He was warned not to touch The root till he reached his home.
Who acts: Master · What happens: bestow, warn, not touch, reach · To what, where: power, Master, root, home · 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 (Master), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bestowed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bestowed | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bestowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bestowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warned | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warned | aux:pass |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bestowed | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 touch | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 touch | mark |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 warned | ccomp |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 root | det |
| 13 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 touch | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 home | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past · passive | power | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past · passive | Master | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | the root | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme root=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | Master | Master's home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
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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