Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 40
Yet when this family Was young, Kulóskap had been Ever and truly their friend; He had made their father his father, The brothers his brothers, the sister His sister by adoption, As Indians often do.
Who acts: family, Kulóskap, father, Indians · What happens: be, make, do · To what, where: friend, father
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 (family, Kulóskap, father, Indians), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 young | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 young | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 family | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 young | nsubj |
| 5 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 young | cop |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friend | punct |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 friend | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 friend | cop |
| 11 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 friend | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 friend | cc |
| 13 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 15 friend | advmod |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 young | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 friend | acl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brothers | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brothers | det |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 father | appos |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 brothers | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sister | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sister | det |
| 31 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 father | conj |
| 32 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sister | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 adoption | case |
| 35 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 do | punct |
| 37 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 do | mark |
| 38 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 do | nsubj |
| 39 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 do | advmod |
| 40 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this family | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Kulóskap | Mteolinwuk's friend | ever | Mteolinwuk nmod:poss; truly property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | father | Mteolinwuk's friend not said here | Mteolinwuk's father | by adoption; father's sister obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset father=Beneficiary father=Product | ||
| 4 | do | present | Indians | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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