Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 24
So he took the gift which they offered, But, instead of putting it on, Cried out to his dogs, “_Cuss! cuss!
Who acts: Lord, entrails · What happens: take, offer, put on, cry out · To what, where: gift, dogs
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 (Lord, entrails), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 offered | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 offered | nsubj |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 putting | punct |
| 10 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 putting | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 putting | punct |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 putting | mark |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 putting | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 putting | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Cried | punct |
| 18 | Cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 putting | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Cried | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dogs | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Cried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cuss | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 cuss | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cuss | punct |
| 26 | Cuss | cuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cuss | compound |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cuss | punct |
| 28 | cuss | cuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Lord | the gift | Cuss cuss obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | past | entrails = entrail | the gift | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put on | gerund | Lord not said here | gift | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | participle | Lord not said here | Lord's dogs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient |
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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