Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
When these are played upon Women who hear the tone Are all bewitched with love, And the moose and caribou Follow the winning sound, Yes, even to their death; And when the forest elves Are pleased with anyone They make of him an elf E’en like unto themselves.
Who acts: Women, moose, forest elves, elves · What happens: play, hear, bewitch, follow, win, be · To what, where: these, tone, winning sound, death, elf
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 (Women, moose, forest elves, elves), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 played | mark |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 played | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux:pass |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Women | case |
| 6 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bewitched | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Women | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tone | det |
| 10 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obj |
| 11 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 bewitched | advmod |
| 13 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 played | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bewitched | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Follow | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Follow | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moose | det |
| 19 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Follow | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caribou | cc |
| 21 | caribou | caribou | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 moose | conj |
| 22 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bewitched | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 24 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 sound | amod |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Follow | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 death | punct |
| 27 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 32 death | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 death | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 death | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 death | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 death | nmod:poss |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Follow | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 pleased | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 pleased | cc |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 pleased | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 elves | det |
| 37 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 elves | compound |
| 38 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pleased | nsubj |
| 39 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 pleased | cop |
| 40 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 played | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 anyone | case |
| 42 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 make | obl |
| 43 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 make | nsubj |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 pleased | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 make | obl |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 elf | det |
| 48 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 make | obj |
| 49 | E’en | E'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 elf | appos |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 themselves | case |
| 51 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 52 themselves | case |
| 52 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 make | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · passive | these | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | present | Women | the tone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bewitch | present · passive | upon Women; with love; all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | follow | present | the moose and caribou | the winning sound | moose's death | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sound=Theme to death=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | the forest elves | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | present | elves = elf | a elf | with anyone; of sound; like moose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elf=Product | |||
| 8 | die | moose | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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