Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 67
Kulóskap discovered That the ball with which they played Was a hideous human skull, A living thing which snapped at His heels.
Who acts: Kulóskap, brothers, living thing · What happens: discover, play, snap · To what, where: That, hideous human skull, Was, heels
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 (Kulóskap, brothers, living thing), 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 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 discovered | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discovered | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 played | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 played | nsubj |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ball | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 played | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 skull | det |
| 12 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skull | amod |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skull | amod |
| 14 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 played | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | compound |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skull | appos |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 snapped | nsubj |
| 20 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | acl:relcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 heels | case |
| 22 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 snapped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Kulóskap | That | the ball obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | past | brothers = brother | a hideous human skull | Was | with the ball | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent be=Beneficiary skull=Theme | ||
| 3 | snap | past | a living thing | game's heels | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Location |
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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