Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 61
Yet he escaped all this And came to the Master’s home Where he was well received, And dwelt for many days; And when the Master asked What ’twas that he would have?
Who acts: death, Master · What happens: escape, come, receive, dwell, ask, ' · To what, where: this, home, death, twas · 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 (death, Master), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 escaped | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 escaped | obj |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escaped | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Master | det |
| 10 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Master | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 received | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 received | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 received | aux:pass |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 received | advmod |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 home | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwelt | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dwelt | cc |
| 20 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dwelt | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 asked | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asked | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 asked | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Master | det |
| 28 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 asked | nsubj |
| 29 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escaped | conj |
| 30 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 ’ | nsubj |
| 31 | ’ | ' | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 asked | ccomp |
| 32 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ’ | obj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 have | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ’ | advcl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | death | this | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | death not said here | the Master's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · passive | death | well property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dwell | past | death not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the Master | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | ' | past | twas | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have | would | death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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