Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 9
Then, holding him in scorn, Kulóskap the great lord Smote Winpe with his bow As one might strike a dog; Down fell the sorcerer dead!
Who acts: one · What happens: hold, strike, fall · To what, where: Winpe, scorn, dog, sorcerer
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 (one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 holding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 holding | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 scorn | case |
| 6 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulóskap | punct |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 scorn | appos |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lord | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lord | amod |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | obj |
| 12 | Smote | Smote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | appos |
| 13 | Winpe | Winpe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Smote | flat |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bow | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lord | nmod |
| 17 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 strike | mark |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 strike | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 strike | aux |
| 20 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 holding | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strike | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fell | punct |
| 24 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 25 fell | advmod |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 holding | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sorcerer | det |
| 27 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fell | obj |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sorcerer | amod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | Winpe | scorn | then | the great lord obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme lord=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | strike | might | one | a dog | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dog=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the sorcerer | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sorcerer=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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