Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 81
Now Kulóskap the Wise Had unto them foretold That on that day they would see Some one come out as first Who they thought would be last of all.
Who acts: Kulóskap, man, one · What happens: have, foretell, see, come out, think, be · To what, where: That · 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, man, 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 | 5 Had | advmod |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Had | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wise | det |
| 4 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kulóskap | flat |
| 5 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 8 foretold | mark |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 foretold | nsubj |
| 8 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Had | xcomp |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 foretold | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 foretold | conj |
| 16 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 first | case |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | advcl |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 last | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 last | cop |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 last | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kulóskap | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | foretell | participle | man | That | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | would | man | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come out | present | some one | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Who nsubj; man nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | would | of all; last 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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