Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 47
They Can work strange deeds and sing Such songs of magic power As charm the wildest beasts And tame the wolf and bear And soothe the wolverine.
Who acts: dwellers, magic power · What happens: work, sing, tame, bear, soothe · To what, where: strange deeds, Such songs, wolf, wolverine
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 (dwellers, magic 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 work | nsubj |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | aux |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deeds | amod |
| 5 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 work | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sing | cc |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | conj |
| 8 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 songs | amod |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 power | amod |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 songs | nmod |
| 13 | As | as | ADP | _ | 14 charm | case |
| 14 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 16 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 beasts | amod |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sing | obj |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tame | cc |
| 19 | tame | tame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wolf | det |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tame | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bear | cc |
| 23 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | conj |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 soothe | cc |
| 25 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 bear | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wolverine | det |
| 27 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 soothe | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | can | dwellers = dweller | strange deeds | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent deed=Material | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | dwellers = dweller not said here | Such songs of magic power | as charm; the wildest beasts obj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent song=Beneficiary beast=Theme | |||
| 3 | tame | infinitive | dwellers = dweller not said here | the wolf | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bear | infinitive | dwellers = dweller not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | soothe | infinitive | dwellers = dweller not said here | the wolverine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolverine=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sing | magic power | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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