Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 24

Then, softly singing, he Bade Sable disobey, And get a crooked stick, As twisted as could be, And told him carefully What more he was to do.

Who acts: chief, crooked stick · What happens: sing, disobey, get, be, tell · To what, where: chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chief, crooked stick), 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	4 singing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 singing	advmod
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 disobey	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disobey	nsubj
7	Bade	Bade	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 disobey	compound
8	Sable	Sable	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Bade	flat
9	disobey	disobey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 singing	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stick	det
14	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stick	amod
15	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 be	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twisted	punct
17	As	as	ADV	_	18 twisted	advmod
18	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stick	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	18 twisted	fixed
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 singing	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	27 What	advmod
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 more	obj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 told	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 do	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 singing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			then	softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disobey		chief				tree rules
3	get	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	can	could	a crooked stick				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past		chief			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	is not said to happen	past	chief			do 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 8, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 24