Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 34

Of these things are many traditions, Many and very long, Which are told by the fire in winter; Old people knew these stories, The younger now forget them And the wisdom in them all.

Who acts: fire, Old people · What happens: be, tell, know, forget · To what, where: many traditions, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, Old people), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 things	det
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 traditions	obl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 traditions	cop
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 traditions	amod
6	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Many	punct
8	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 traditions	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Many	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 told	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 traditions	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 winter	case
20	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fire	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 traditions	parataxis
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 stories	det
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knew	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forget	punct
28	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 younger	det
29	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 forget	advcl
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 forget	advmod
31	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forget	obj
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	35 wisdom	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wisdom	det
35	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 them	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forget	obl
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 them	nmod:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 traditions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		many traditions		of this things	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive	the fire in winter	many traditions			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	know	past	Old people	this stories			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	forget	present	Old people not said here	stories = story	now	in people	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 34