Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 88
And the squaws declared that they Had ne’er seen aught so fine, Such a lovely, lovable man!
Who acts: squaws, faces · What happens: declare, have, see · To what, where: aught
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 (squaws, faces), 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 | _ | 4 declared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 squaws | det |
| 3 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 Had | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Had | nsubj |
| 7 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | advcl |
| 8 | ne’er | ne' | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 aught | amod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 aught | amod |
| 10 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 7 Had | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 fine | advmod |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 declared | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 man | punct |
| 14 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 man | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 16 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lovely | punct |
| 18 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fine | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the squaws | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | faces = face | aught | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aught=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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