Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 94
Now the Master would fain go hunting, And thereby do a deed Which should equal the great whale-fishing Of Kitpûsiigʾnâû.
Who acts: Master, deed · What happens: fain, go, do, equal, fish · To what, where: hunting, deed, great whale fishing, Kitpûsiigʾnâû
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 (Master, deed), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fain | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Master | det |
| 3 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fain | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fain | aux |
| 5 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fain | xcomp |
| 7 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 10 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fain | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deed | det |
| 13 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 equal | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 equal | aux |
| 16 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 deed | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fishing | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fishing | amod |
| 19 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fishing | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 whale | punct |
| 21 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 equal | obj |
| 22 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Kitpûsiigʾnâû | case |
| 23 | Kitpûsiigʾnâû | Kitpûsiigʾnâû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fishing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fain | would | the Master | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the Master not said here | hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | the Master not said here | a deed | thereby property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | equal | should | a deed | the great whale fishing of Kitpûsiigʾnâû | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fish | Kitpûsiigʾnâû | nom fishing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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