Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 85
And the third one asked to live Unto a great old age, And ever be in health Till he should pass away.
Who acts: third one, man · What happens: ask, live, be, pass away · To what, where: third one, health
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 (third one, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 one | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 age | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 age | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 age | amod |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 health | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 health | cc |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 health | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 health | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 health | case |
| 18 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | conj |
| 19 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 pass | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pass | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pass | aux |
| 22 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 health | acl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 pass | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | the third one and health not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | the third one and health not said here | unto a great old age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | health | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass away | should | man | health not said here | away property | 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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