Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 74

Then Kulóskap, who was sitting On a skin in the tent beneath, Said: “Uncle the hour is come, Now will I make thee Sagem, Grand Sagamore of the Tortoise, The chief of the Lenni Lenâbe; Thou shalt bear up a great nation Which shall rest upon thy shell!”

Who acts: Kulóskap, Thou, great nation · What happens: sit, say, uncle, come, make, bear up · To what, where: skin, hour, thee, great nation, shell · 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 (Kulóskap, Thou, great nation), 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	2 Kulóskap	advmod
2	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Kulóskap	acl
7	On	on	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tent	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tent	det
12	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
13	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	6 sitting	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kulóskap	punct
15	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Uncle	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Uncle	punct
18	Uncle	uncle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux:pass
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Uncle	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
24	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 make	advmod
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Uncle	conj
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 make	obj
29	Sagem	Sagem	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 make	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Sagamore	punct
31	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Sagamore	amod
32	Sagamore	Sagamore	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Sagem	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Tortoise	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Tortoise	det
35	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Sagamore	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chief	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chief	det
38	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Sagem	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Lenâbe	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Lenâbe	det
41	Lenni	Lenni	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Lenâbe	compound
42	Lenâbe	Lenâbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 chief	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 bear	punct
44	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 bear	nsubj
45	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	46 bear	aux
46	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Said	ccomp
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 bear	compound:prt
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 nation	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 nation	amod
50	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bear	obj
51	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 rest	nsubj
52	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 rest	aux
53	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 nation	acl:relcl
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 shell	case
55	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 shell	nmod:poss
56	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rest	obl
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 bear	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	46 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Kulóskap		a skin		in the tent; beneath property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on skin=Location
2	say speech: express	past	Kulóskap					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	uncle in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
4	come in a quote	present · passive		the hour				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	make in a quote	future	Kulóskap	thee		now	Sagem and Grand Sagamore of the Tortoise obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Product
6	bear up in a quote	shall	Thou	a great nation				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nation=Patient
7	rest in a quote	shall	a great nation		thy shell			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shell=Location

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 74