Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
The bridegroom and the bride, With them the wizard bold, Then entered the canoe And sailed away toward home; Yet they had more to meet, And trials to endure, Though of no dangerous kind; ’Tis said they were but jests Played by the Master’s skill.
Who acts: bridegroom, dance, Tis · What happens: enter, sail away, have, meet, trial, endure · To what, where: canoe, home, more, jests · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bridegroom, dance, Tis), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bride | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bride | det |
| 5 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bridegroom | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bold | punct |
| 7 | With | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bold | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bold | det |
| 10 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bold | amod |
| 11 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bridegroom | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bridegroom | punct |
| 13 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 canoe | det |
| 16 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sailed | cc |
| 18 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 sailed | advmod |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailed | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 23 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | parataxis |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 meet | mark |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 more | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 trials | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 trials | cc |
| 31 | trials | trial | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 had | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 endure | mark |
| 33 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 trials | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kind | punct |
| 35 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 39 kind | mark |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 kind | case |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 kind | det |
| 38 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 kind | amod |
| 39 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 endure | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 said | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 said | punct |
| 42 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 said | nsubj |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | conj |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 jests | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 jests | cop |
| 46 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 jests | cc |
| 47 | jests | jest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 said | ccomp |
| 48 | Played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 jests | acl |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 skill | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Master | det |
| 51 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 skill | nmod:poss |
| 52 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 51 Master | case |
| 53 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Played | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the bridegroom and the bride and the wizard bold with dance | the canoe | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme canoe=Destination | |||
| 2 | sail away | past | the bridegroom and the bride and the wizard bold with dance not said here | home | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward home=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | have | past | dance | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | dance not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | trial | present | dance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | endure | to-infinitive | dance not said here | no dangerous kind conj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Tis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | dance | jests | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | play | participle | jests not said here | by the Master's skill | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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