Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 99
[21] Once there were three brothers who went to see the Lord of Life and get their wishes from him.
Who acts: three brothers, BROTHERS · What happens: be, go, see, get, wish · To what, where: Lord, wishes, 21
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 (three brothers, BROTHERS), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 4 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 were | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 21 | advcl |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lord | det |
| 14 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Life | case |
| 16 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lord | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | three brothers | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | three brothers not said here | the Lord of Life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | three brothers not said here | BROTHERS's wishes | from life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wish=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 6 | wish | BROTHERS = brother | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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