Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 98
Whene’er he left this plate Kulóskap always knew The place where it was laid, And by a glance thereat Could tell whate’er had happed Unto his family.
Who acts: Whene’er · What happens: leave, know, lay, tell, hap · To what, where: plate, place, whate’er · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Whene’er), 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 | Whene’er | whene'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whene’er | acl:relcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 plate | det |
| 5 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plate | appos |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 knew | advmod |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 laid | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | aux:pass |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tell | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tell | cc |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 glance | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 glance | det |
| 19 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obl |
| 20 | thereat | thereat | ADV | _ | 22 tell | advmod |
| 21 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | conj |
| 23 | whate’er | whate'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happed | aux |
| 25 | happed | hap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 26 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 family | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 family | nmod:poss |
| 28 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Whene’er = whene'er | this plate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Whene’er | the place | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | plate | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | could | Whene’er not said here | by a glance; thereat property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hap | past · perfect · passive | whate’er | unto Whene’er's family | tree rules |
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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