Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 24
Then Kitpûsâgunâû, Lifting the largest of them, Put it upon his head, And it became a canoe.
Who acts: Kitpûsâgunâû, you, beach · What happens: lift, put, become · To what, where: largest, Kitpûsâgunâû, head, canoe
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kitpûsâgunâû, you, beach), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Kitpûsâgunâû | advmod |
| 2 | Kitpûsâgunâû | Kitpûsâgunâû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lifting | punct |
| 4 | Lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Kitpûsâgunâû | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 largest | det |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Lifting | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 largest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kitpûsâgunâû | punct |
| 10 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Put | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Put | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 canoe | det |
| 20 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | gerund | Kitpûsâgunâû not said here | the largest of whales | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent large=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | imperative | you not said here | Kitpûsâgunâû | Kitpûsâgunâû's head | beach obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon head=Destination | ||
| 3 | become | past | beach | a canoe | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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