Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
Had the Master been As other men, the monster Would have bitten a foot away.
Who acts: other men · What happens: have, bite away · To what, where: Master, monster
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 (other men), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Master | det |
| 3 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Master | acl |
| 5 | As | as | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 been | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bitten | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monster | det |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bitten | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bitten | aux |
| 13 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 foot | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bitten | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 bitten | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bite away | would · perfect · passive | other men not said here | the monster | a foot obj; away property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient foot=Result |
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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