Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

These dogs had been so trained That when called off they fought More fiercely than before, And when told not to bite They ever bit the more.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: have, be, call off, fight, tell, not bite · To what, where: dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dogs), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trained	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dogs	acl:relcl
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 trained	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 trained	advmod
6	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trained	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trained	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 called	compound:prt
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fought	nsubj
12	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	conj
13	More	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 fiercely	advmod
14	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	12 fought	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 before	case
16	before	before	ADV	_	14 fiercely	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 told	advmod
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trained	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 bite	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bite	mark
23	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	xcomp
24	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bit	nsubj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 bit	advmod
26	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 more	det
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 bit	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	this dogs not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle · passive		this dogs		That obj; train property	tree rules
3	call off speech: assert	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fight	past	dogs = dog			fiercely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	participle					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not bite not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	bite	past	dogs = dog		ever		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 17