Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 44
And now he paused, and, thinking o’er his deeds, Long wondered if his work was at an end.
Who acts: Kulóskap, Long, work · What happens: pause, think, wonder, be, work · To what, where: end · 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 (Kulóskap, Long, work), 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 paused | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 paused | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wondered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wondered | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 wondered | ccomp |
| 9 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 11 deeds | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thinking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinking | punct |
| 13 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wondered | nsubj |
| 14 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | parataxis |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 end | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 work | nmod:poss |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 end | cop |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wondered | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | Kulóskap | now | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | o'er Kulóskap's deeds | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | Long | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | Kulóskap's work | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | Kulóskap | nom work «act 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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