Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 43
Now ’twas the time for holding The great and yearly feast With dancing and merry games; But Kulóskap cared not to go As guest or as performer.
Who acts: time, Kulóskap · What happens: hold, care, not go · To what, where: great feast, twas, guest
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 (time, Kulóskap), 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 | 3 twas | advmod |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 twas | appos |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 holding | mark |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feast | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yearly | cc |
| 11 | yearly | yearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 great | conj |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holding | obj |
| 13 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 dancing | case |
| 14 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feast | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 games | cc |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 games | amod |
| 17 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dancing | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 cared | punct |
| 19 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 cared | cc |
| 20 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cared | nsubj |
| 21 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 twas | acl:relcl |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cared | xcomp |
| 25 | As | as | ADV | _ | 26 guest | advmod |
| 26 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 performer | cc |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 performer | case |
| 29 | performer | performer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guest | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 twas | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | the time not said here | the great feast | with dancing and merry games | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | care | past | Kulóskap | twas not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not go | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | guest or performer | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/8/43/