Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 20
The girls came to him greeting With fond and pleasing glances, Asking if he was hungry, And offering him a dainty: The entrails of a bear Which, when turned and smoked and seasoned, Are deemed by all delicious.
Who acts: girls, wolf · What happens: come, greet, ask, be, offer, turn · To what, where: wolf, dainty, entrails
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 (girls, wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | With | with | ADP | _ | 11 glances | case |
| 8 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glances | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleasing | cc |
| 10 | pleasing | pleasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fond | conj |
| 11 | glances | glance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 greeting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Asking | punct |
| 13 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 greeting | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 hungry | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | cop |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Asking | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offering | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 offering | cc |
| 20 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 greeting | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 offering | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dainty | det |
| 23 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offering | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 entrails | punct |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 entrails | det |
| 26 | entrails | entrail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 deemed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bear | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bear | det |
| 29 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 entrails | nmod |
| 30 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 turned | mark |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 entrails | acl:relcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 smoked | cc |
| 35 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 turned | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 seasoned | cc |
| 37 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 turned | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 entrails | punct |
| 39 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 deemed | aux:pass |
| 40 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 offering | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 all | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 deemed | obj |
| 43 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 all | amod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the girls | wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | gerund | the girls not said here | with fond glances | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the girls not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | wolf | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | offer | gerund | the girls not said here | a dainty | wolf | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal dainty=Theme | |||
| 6 | turn | participle · passive | the entrails of a bear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | season | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | deem | present · passive | the entrails of a bear | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme all=Attribute |
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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