Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 82
And when this came to pass, They were more enraged than before, And so they planned again To kill Mikchik, but his nephew Who was on the point of leaving The village and all therein, Told him how it would be.
Who acts: this, man, nephew, point · What happens: come, pass, enrage, plan, kill, be · To what, where: man, Mikchik, point, village, Kulóskap · 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 (this, man, nephew, point), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enraged | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enraged | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | aux:pass |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 enraged | advmod |
| 11 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 enraged | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 planned | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 planned | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 planned | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 planned | nsubj |
| 18 | planned | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enraged | parataxis |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 planned | advmod |
| 20 | To | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 planned | advcl |
| 22 | Mikchik | Mikchik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 point | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 point | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 point | nsubj |
| 27 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 point | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 point | cop |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 point | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 point | det |
| 31 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Told | obl |
| 32 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 leaving | mark |
| 33 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 Told | advcl |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 village | det |
| 35 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 leaving | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 all | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 village | conj |
| 38 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 33 leaving | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 leaving | punct |
| 40 | Told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 planned | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 Told | iobj |
| 42 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 be | advmod |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 be | nsubj |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 be | aux |
| 45 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 Told | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enrage | past · passive | man | before property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | plan | past | man | again | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | man not said here | Mikchik | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mikchik=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Kulóskap's nephew | the point | Who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | leave | gerund | the village | therein property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past | man not said here | Kulóskap | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | be not said to happen | would | point | vn exist-47.1 «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.
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