Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 88

“Cut me to pieces,” he said, “Burn me again, or stab me, But do not, I beg you, throw me Into the water to drown!”

Who acts: you, foe · What happens: cut, say, burn, stab, not do, beg · To what, where: foe, you, water · 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 (you, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
2	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Cut	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 pieces	case
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Cut	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Burn	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Burn	punct
12	Burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Burn	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 Burn	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stab	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 stab	cc
17	stab	stab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stab	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
20	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 do	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beg	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 beg	nsubj
25	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 beg	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 throw	punct
28	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 throw	obj
30	Into	into	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 throw	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 drown	mark
34	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 throw	advcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut in a quote	imperative	you not said here	foe			to pieces	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	foe					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	burn in a quote	infinitive		foe		again		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	stab in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	foe				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	not do in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	beg speech: request in a quote	present	foe		you			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	throw in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	foe			into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into water=Result
8	drown in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 88