Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 14
It was a great ravine Wherein two monstrous beasts Waylaid all travellers And tore them limb from limb.
Who acts: pass, two monstrous beasts · What happens: be, waylay, tore, limb · To what, where: great ravine, travellers, limb
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pass, two monstrous beasts), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ravine | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ravine | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ravine | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ravine | amod |
| 5 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 Waylaid | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 beasts | nummod |
| 8 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beasts | amod |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Waylaid | nsubj |
| 10 | Waylaid | waylay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ravine | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 travellers | det |
| 12 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Waylaid | obj |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tore | cc |
| 14 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Waylaid | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tore | obj |
| 16 | limb | limb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tore | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 limb | case |
| 18 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 limb | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ravine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pass | a great ravine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | waylay | past | two monstrous beasts | all travellers | wherein property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tore | past | two monstrous beasts not said here | travellers = traveller | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | limb | infinitive | two monstrous beasts not said here | limb | 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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