Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 40

So to see what would come of it He went beyond the mark While carrying the whale, And doing this he lost The strength on him bestowed; And sank beneath his burden Crushed by the mighty whale.

Who acts: Was · What happens: see, come, go, carry, do, lose · To what, where: mark, whale, this, strength, burden · 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 (Was), 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	So	so	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 mark	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mark	det
13	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	While	while	SCONJ	_	15 carrying	mark
15	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 went	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 whale	det
17	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carrying	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 lost	cc
20	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 lost	csubj
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 doing	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lost	nsubj
23	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 strength	det
25	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lost	obl
28	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lost	parataxis
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sank	punct
30	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 sank	cc
31	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	advcl
32	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	34 burden	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 burden	nmod:poss
34	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sank	obl
35	Crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 burden	acl
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 whale	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 whale	det
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 whale	amod
39	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Crushed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	Was not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	would				of kind; what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
3	go	past	Was		the mark		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond mark=Location
4	carry	gerund	Was not said here	the whale			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme
5	do	gerund		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6	lose	past	Was	the strength		on power	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality
7	bestow	participle					tree rules
8	sink	past	Was not said here			beneath Was's burden	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	crush	participle		Was's burden not said here		by the mighty whale	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
10	burden		Was				nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=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 9, sentence 40