Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 87
But hearing this, as in terror He implored them not to do it.
Who acts: foe · What happens: hear, implore, not do · To what, where: this, waters, terror
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 (foe), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | cc |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 implored | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 implored | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 implored | obl |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 implored | nsubj |
| 9 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hearing | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 implored | obj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 implored | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | implore | past | foe | waters = water | terror | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | foe not said here | terror | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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