Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
And when he thus had said, He laughed and let them know ’Twas he in all their trials And triumphs who had worked And brought it all to pass.
Who acts: brute, tempests, trials · What happens: say, laugh, let, know, work, bring · To what, where: tempests, triumph · 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 (brute, tempests, trials), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 laughed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 laughed | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 15 Twas | case |
| 15 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 trials | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 trials | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 trials | det:predet |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 trials | nmod:poss |
| 20 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Twas | acl:relcl |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 triumphs | cc |
| 22 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trials | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 worked | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 worked | aux |
| 25 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 trials | acl:relcl |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 worked | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | obj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 it | det |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 pass | mark |
| 31 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 brought | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | brute | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | brute | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | brute not said here | tempests = tempest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | tempests = tempest not said here | ' Twas in tempests's trials brute and triumphs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | work | past · perfect | tempests's trials brute and triumphs | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | tempests's trials brute and triumphs not said here | triumph | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pass | to-infinitive | tempests's trials brute and triumphs not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | try | tempests = tempest | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/6/39/