Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 63
They shut the door of the wigwam Hoping to smother him.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: shut, hope, smother · To what, where: door, anger
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 (brothers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wigwam | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wigwam | det |
| 7 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 8 | Hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 shut | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 smother | mark |
| 10 | smother | smother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Hoping | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 smother | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | present | brothers = brother | the door of the wigwam | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smother not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | anger | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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