Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
All of the olden time, All in a year it befell That Kulóskap had a foe: A very evil man, A very sinful beast, A very vile magician, Who after he had tried A hundred tricks in vain Took on the form of a snake, A serpent of awful size, In hope to kill the Lord.
Who acts: rock, That, evil man · What happens: befall, have, try, take, kill, form · To what, where: foe, hope, hundred tricks, vain Took form, Lord, snake
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, That, evil man), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 year | det |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befell | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 befell | nsubj |
| 12 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | advcl |
| 13 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 befell | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 foe | det |
| 17 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 19 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 evil | advmod |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foe | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beast | punct |
| 24 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 beast | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 sinful | advmod |
| 26 | sinful | sinful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beast | amod |
| 27 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 magician | punct |
| 29 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 magician | det |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 vile | advmod |
| 31 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 magician | amod |
| 32 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tried | punct |
| 34 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 tried | nsubj |
| 35 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 tried | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 tried | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 tried | aux |
| 38 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 man | acl |
| 39 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 hundred | det |
| 40 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 tricks | nummod |
| 41 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 tried | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 form | case |
| 43 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 form | amod |
| 44 | Took | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 form | amod |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 form | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 form | det |
| 47 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tried | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 snake | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 snake | det |
| 50 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 form | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 serpent | punct |
| 52 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 serpent | det |
| 53 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 size | case |
| 55 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 size | amod |
| 56 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 serpent | nmod |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 hope | punct |
| 58 | In | in | ADP | _ | 59 hope | case |
| 59 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 kill | mark |
| 61 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 hope | acl |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 Lord | det |
| 63 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 kill | obj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | rock | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | That | a foe | hope | Kulóskap nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient | ||
| 3 | try | past · perfect | a evil man and a vile magician and a serpent of awful size | hundred tricks | the vain Took form of a snake | Kulóskap nsubj | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | take | participle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | That not said here | the Lord | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme | ||||
| 7 | form | a snake | nom form «communication 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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