Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 94
Then the sorcerer filled his pipe Afresh with strong tobacco, Such as would kill if they breathed it A porcupine or a toad.
Who acts: sorcerer, strong tobacco, sorcerers · What happens: fill, kill, breathe · To what, where: pipe
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 (sorcerer, strong tobacco, sorcerers), 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 | 4 filled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sorcerer | det |
| 3 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obj |
| 7 | Afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 filled | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tobacco | case |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tobacco | amod |
| 10 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Afresh | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 12 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 kill | mark |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Such | fixed |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tobacco | acl:relcl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 breathed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 breathed | nsubj |
| 18 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 breathed | obj |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 porcupine | det |
| 21 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breathed | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 toad | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 toad | det |
| 24 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 porcupine | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | the sorcerer | boulder's pipe | then | afresh property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||
| 2 | kill | would | strong tobacco not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | breathe a condition, not said to happen | past | sorcerers = sorcerer | pipe | a porcupine or a toad obj | tree rules |
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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