Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 54

Now the Master liked it not If, when he had plainly told What it was that one must do, That man should double on him Or quibble, or disobey.

Who acts: Master, wish, man · What happens: not like, tell, be, double, disobey · To what, where: wish · 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 (Master, wish, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 liked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Master	det
3	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 liked	advmod
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 liked	advcl
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 do	obj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 do	cop
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 do	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 do	aux
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 double	punct
22	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 double	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 double	aux
25	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 double	obl
28	Or	or	CCONJ	_	29 quibble	cc
29	quibble	quibble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 him	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 disobey	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 disobey	cc
32	disobey	disobey	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 double	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past	the Master	wish	now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Master			plainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	must · past	wish			What obj; one nsubj; do property	tree rules
4	double	should	that man			on Master	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	disobey	infinitive					tree rules

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 54

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 54