Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

Now the Turtle seemed very lazy, And for days after they were married While other men were hunting He lounged about at home Smoking over the fire, Till one frosty, sunny morning, His wife said to him, “Mikchik, If this goes on much longer We two must certainly starve.”

Who acts: Turtle, days, wife, this, We · What happens: seem, marry, hunt, lounge, say, go on · To what, where: Mikchik, home Smoking, Turtle · 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 (Turtle, days, wife, this), 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	4 seemed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Turtle	det
3	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hunting	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 hunting	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 days	case
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunting	obl
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 married	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 married	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 days	acl:relcl
15	While	while	SCONJ	_	17 men	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 married	obl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hunting	aux
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 seemed	xcomp
20	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lounged	nsubj
21	lounged	lounge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hunting	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 lounged	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 Smoking	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Smoking	compound
25	Smoking	smoking	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lounged	obl
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 fire	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fire	det
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lounged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 morning	punct
30	Till	till	ADP	_	35 morning	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 morning	nummod
32	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morning	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 frosty	punct
34	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morning	amod
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lounged	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
37	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wife	nmod:poss
38	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 morning	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Mikchik	punct
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 Mikchik	punct
44	Mikchik	Mikchik	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 said	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 goes	punct
46	If	if	SCONJ	_	48 goes	mark
47	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 goes	nsubj
48	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 said	conj
49	on	on	ADV	_	48 goes	advmod
50	much	much	ADV	_	51 longer	advmod
51	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	48 goes	advmod
52	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 starve	nsubj
53	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 We	appos
54	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 starve	aux
55	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	56 starve	advmod
56	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 longer	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 goes	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Turtle				now	lazy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	marry	past · passive	days not said here	Mikchik				while other men	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	hunt	past · progressive	the Turtle not said here				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lounge	past	Turtle			home Smoking		over the fire; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at smoking=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	Turtle's wife		Turtle			Mikchik ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	go on a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	this					long property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	starve in a quote	must	We					certainly 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 63