Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

And the second said: “I am poor, My life is very hard, And, though I toil unceasing, I can barely make a living, And I would fain be rich.”

Who acts: second, life · What happens: say, be, toil, unceas, make, fain · To what, where: living · 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 (second, life), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 second	det
3	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 poor	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 poor	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poor	cop
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hard	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hard	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poor	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 toil	punct
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	21 toil	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 toil	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 toil	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 toil	nsubj
21	toil	toil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	conj
22	unceasing	unceas	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 toil	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
26	barely	barely	ADV	_	27 make	advmod
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 poor	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 living	det
29	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fain	punct
31	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 fain	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 fain	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fain	aux
34	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 rich	cop
36	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fain	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 fain	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the second			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the second = second		poor property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	My life		hard property	tree rules
4	toil in a quote	present	the second = second			tree rules
5	unceas in a quote	gerund	the second = second not said here			tree rules
6	make in a quote	can	the second = second	a living	barely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Product
7	fain in a quote	would	the second = second			tree rules
8	is in a quote	infinitive	the second = second not said here		rich 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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 16