Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

And so he said to himself: “If this be all deceit, It was very shrewdly planned, To bid me not open it Until I should be at home.

Who acts: death, this · What happens: say, be, plan, not bid, open · To what, where: death, deceit, home · 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, this), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 said	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 planned	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 planned	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 deceit	mark
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 deceit	nsubj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 deceit	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 deceit	det
13	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 planned	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deceit	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 planned	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 planned	aux:pass
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 shrewdly	advmod
18	shrewdly	shrewdly	ADV	_	19 planned	advmod
19	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bid	punct
21	To	to	PART	_	22 bid	mark
22	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 planned	parataxis
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bid	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bid	advmod
25	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 bid	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 open	obj
27	Until	until	SCONJ	_	32 home	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 home	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 home	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 home	cop
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	death		death			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	this	all deceit				tree rules
3	plan in a quote	past · passive		deceit			shrewdly property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	not bid in a quote	to-infinitive		death				tree rules
5	open in a quote	infinitive		deceit				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
6	is in a quote	should	death			home		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 67