Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 58
Now all the young men in Piktook Were of just the same opinion, And all were firmly resolved To kill the one who should win her.
Who acts: one · What happens: resolve, kill, win · To what, where: all, one, Were
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 (one), 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 | 13 opinion | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 men | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 men | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opinion | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Piktook | case |
| 7 | Piktook | Piktook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 8 | Were | Were | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 opinion | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 opinion | case |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 opinion | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 opinion | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 opinion | amod |
| 13 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 resolved | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 resolved | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 resolved | aux:pass |
| 18 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 19 resolved | advmod |
| 19 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 opinion | conj |
| 20 | To | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 resolved | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | obj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 win | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 win | aux |
| 26 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 win | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past · passive | all | firmly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the one | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win | should | the one | Were | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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