Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 15
Then the elder pilgrim said: “Lo, I am a wicked man Accursed with furious moods, Given to wrath and reviling; Yet I would fain be gentle, Pious and meek and good.”
Who acts: elder pilgrim · What happens: say, be, accurs, give, revile, fain · To what, where: wicked man, furious moods, wrath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder pilgrim), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pilgrim | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pilgrim | amod |
| 4 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 8 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 14 man | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lo | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 man | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 moods | case |
| 17 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moods | amod |
| 18 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Accursed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Given | punct |
| 20 | Given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 moods | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 wrath | case |
| 22 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Given | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reviling | cc |
| 24 | reviling | revile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 Given | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 fain | punct |
| 26 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 29 fain | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 fain | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fain | aux |
| 29 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 gentle | cop |
| 31 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fain | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Pious | punct |
| 33 | Pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gentle | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 meek | cc |
| 35 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gentle | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 good | cc |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 gentle | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 fain | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elder pilgrim | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim | a wicked man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accurs in a quote | participle | a wicked man not said here | with furious moods | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | participle | furious moods not said here | wrath | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wrath=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | revile in a quote | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | fain in a quote | would | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | infinitive | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim not said here | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | be in a quote | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | be in a quote | the elder pilgrim = pilgrim not said here | 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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