Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 62
For I tell thee in very truth I never yet did intrust it To any mortal man But what in the end I had to Go after it myself.”
Who acts: I, end · What happens: tell, not intrust, have, go · To what, where: thee, truth, bade, end, myself · 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 (I, end), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 tell | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 intrust | advcl |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 truth | case |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 truth | advmod |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 intrust | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 intrust | advmod |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 intrust | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 intrust | aux |
| 12 | intrust | intrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 intrust | obj |
| 14 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 man | det |
| 16 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 intrust | obl |
| 18 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 what | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 man | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 what | nmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 end | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 Go | mark |
| 26 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | xcomp |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Go | obl |
| 29 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 Go | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 intrust | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 intrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | I | thee | truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not intrust | past · do-support | I | bade | yet | to any mortal man | tree rules | ||
| 3 | have | past | I | the end not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | the end not said here | myself | after bade | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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