Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 77
More indeed, for the chief Said, “Look at yonder hill, I fain would see my son Coast down it on a sled.”
Who acts: chief, son · What happens: look, fain, see, coast down · To what, where: son, head, sled
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 (chief, son), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 chief | advmod |
| 2 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 More | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chief | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Look | nsubj |
| 7 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 chief | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Look | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Look | punct |
| 10 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 12 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 13 hill | advmod |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fain | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 fain | nsubj |
| 16 | fain | fain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Look | parataxis |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fain | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | Coast | coast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | xcomp |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 Coast | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Coast | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 sled | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sled | det |
| 26 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Coast | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Look | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | the chief | at hill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fain in a quote | present | the chief = chief | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | would | the chief = chief not said here | my son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | coast down in a quote | infinitive | my son not said here | head | a sled | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on sled=Trajectory |
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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