Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 16
The Sagamore had a man Whom none could overcome In swimming of all kinds, Or diving in the sea; With him the youth must strive.
Who acts: Sagamore, man, youth · What happens: have, overcome, dive, strive, swim · To what, where: kinds
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sagamore, man, youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sagamore | det |
| 2 | Sagamore | Sagamore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | nsubj |
| 6 | Whom | whom | ADP | _ | 7 none | case |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 overcome | aux |
| 9 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 swimming | case |
| 11 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kinds | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 kinds | det |
| 14 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 swimming | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 diving | punct |
| 16 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 diving | cc |
| 17 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 overcome | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 diving | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 strive | punct |
| 22 | With | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 strive | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 youth | det |
| 25 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strive | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 strive | aux |
| 27 | strive | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 overcome | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Sagamore | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | overcome | could | a man whom none | in swimming of all kinds | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in swimming=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | dive | gerund | a man whom none not said here | in the sea | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sea=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | strive | must | the youth | with Sagamore | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swim | all kinds | nom swimming «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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