Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
Yet he was not far away Ere he longed to open the gift, And test the medicine, And still more the Master’s truth.
Who acts: death, Ere · What happens: be, long, open, test · To what, where: Ere, more, gift, medicine
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, Ere), 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 | _ | 9 longed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Ere | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ere | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 Ere | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 7 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 longed | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 longed | nsubj |
| 9 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 longed | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gift | det |
| 13 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 test | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 test | cc |
| 16 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 open | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 medicine | det |
| 18 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 test | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 longed | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Master | det |
| 24 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 truth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Master | case |
| 26 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | death | Ere | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | long | past | Ere | more the Master's truth | death nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ere not said here | the gift | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | test | infinitive | Ere not said here | the medicine | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
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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