Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
The second brother asked That he might ever live Where he might behold the land And all the beauty of it, And do naught else save rest In peace forever more.
Who acts: second brother, That, man · What happens: ask, live, behold, do, save · To what, where: land, naught, rest, peace · 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 (second brother, That, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 live | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 behold | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 behold | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 behold | aux |
| 13 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 live | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 behold | obj |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beauty | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 beauty | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beauty | det |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beauty | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 live | conj |
| 25 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 naught | advmod |
| 27 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | conj |
| 28 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 save | obj |
| 29 | In | in | ADP | _ | 30 peace | case |
| 30 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 save | obl |
| 31 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 do | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the second brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live | might | That | ever | man nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | behold | might | man | the land and all beauty of land | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | That not said here | naught | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | save | infinitive | That not said here | rest | peace | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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