Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
When Kulóskap lived among men, He often in his canoe Went forth to kill the wild-fowl, Ducks or swans or brant, Which swim upon the sea.
Who acts: Kulóskap, KULÓSKAP, Ducks · What happens: live, go, kill, swim · To what, where: canoe, wild fowl, sea
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 (Kulóskap, KULÓSKAP, Ducks), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Went | advcl |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Went | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 Went | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 canoe | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Went | obl |
| 12 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 Went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Went | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fowl | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fowl | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wild | punct |
| 19 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ducks | punct |
| 21 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fowl | appos |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 swans | cc |
| 23 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Ducks | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 brant | cc |
| 25 | brant | brant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Ducks | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 swim | punct |
| 27 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 swim | nsubj |
| 28 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Ducks | conj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 sea | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 swim | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Kulóskap | among men | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | KULÓSKAP's canoe | forth, often property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap not said here | the wild fowl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | swim | present | Ducks or swans or brant | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sea=Trajectory |
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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