Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 39

There was a father Who had three sons and a daughter, And all were Mteolinwuk, That is, they were magicians Of terrible power, and giants; They ate men, women, and children; Yea, they did everything That was wicked and horrible; And the land grew tired of them And of all their abominations.

Who acts: father, That, Mteolinwuk, land · What happens: be, have, giant, eat, do, grow · To what, where: three sons, Mteolinwuk, magicians, men, everything

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, That, Mteolinwuk, land), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 father	acl:relcl
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sons	nummod
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 daughter	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sons	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 giants	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 giants	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 Mteolinwuk	det
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Mteolinwuk	cop
16	Mteolinwuk	Mteolinwuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 giants	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 magicians	punct
18	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 magicians	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 magicians	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 magicians	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 magicians	cop
23	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Mteolinwuk	conj
24	Of	of	ADP	_	26 power	case
25	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 power	amod
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 magicians	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 giants	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 giants	cc
29	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ate	punct
31	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	nsubj
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ate	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 women	punct
35	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 children	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 children	cc
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	conj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 did	punct
40	Yea	yea	INTJ	_	43 did	discourse
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Yea	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 did	nsubj
43	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ate	conj
44	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 did	obj
45	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 wicked	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 wicked	cop
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 did	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 horrible	cc
49	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wicked	conj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 grew	punct
51	And	and	CCONJ	_	54 grew	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 land	det
53	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 grew	nsubj
54	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
55	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 grew	xcomp
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 them	case
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 tired	obl
58	And	and	CCONJ	_	62 abominations	cc
59	of	of	ADP	_	62 abominations	case
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	62 abominations	det:predet
61	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 abominations	nmod:poss
62	abominations	abomination	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 them	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a father		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a father	three sons and a daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is a	past		all Mteolinwuk and magicians			tree rules
4	is a	present	That	magicians		of terrible power; Mteolinwuk nsubj	tree rules
5	giant		all Mteolinwuk and magicians				tree rules
6	eat	past	Mteolinwuk	men and women and children			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
7	do	past	Mteolinwuk	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
8	is	past	That			wicked property	tree rules
9	be		That not said here				tree rules
10	grow	past	the land			tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 39