Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 31
So, being at home, the host Took up a knife of stone Splitting the whale in two, And threw one half to his guest.
What happens: be, take up, split, throw · To what, where: home, whale, two, one half, guest
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: 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 | _ | 9 Took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 home | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 home | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Took | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 home | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 host | det |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Took | nsubj |
| 9 | Took | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 Took | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knife | det |
| 12 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Took | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knife | nmod |
| 15 | Splitting | split | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Took | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 whale | det |
| 17 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Splitting | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 two | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Splitting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Took | parataxis |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 half | nummod |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 guest | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 guest | nmod:poss |
| 27 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | home | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take up | participle · passive | home | the host nsubj; a knife of stone obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme knife=Destination | ||||
| 3 | split | gerund | the whale | two | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | one half | host's guest | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent half=Theme to guest=Destination |
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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