Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 64
For never in all his life Had he stolen any _Kwédŭn_ (Canoe) nor borrowed anything Without returning it promptly.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: steal, borrow, return · To what, where: Kwédŭn, anything
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 (Badger), 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 | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 life | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 life | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stolen | obl |
| 7 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stolen | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stolen | nsubj |
| 9 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 Kwédŭn | det |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kwédŭn | punct |
| 12 | Kwédŭn | Kwédŭn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stolen | obl |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kwédŭn | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Canoe | punct |
| 15 | Canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Kwédŭn | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 Canoe | punct |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 borrowed | cc |
| 18 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stolen | conj |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 borrowed | obj |
| 20 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 returning | mark |
| 21 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 borrowed | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 returning | obj |
| 23 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 21 returning | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect | Badger | any Kwédŭn | for Badger's life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | borrow | past | Badger not said here | anything | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | gerund | Badger not said here | Kwédŭn | promptly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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