Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 31
But the more he bade them be peaceful The more they attacked the witches And drove them at last away.
Who acts: Pûjinskwes, sisters · What happens: bade, be, attack, drive · To what, where: sisters, witches
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 (Pûjinskwes, sisters), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 bade | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 more | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 bade | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attacked | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 peaceful | cop |
| 8 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bade | xcomp |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 more | det |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 peaceful | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 attacked | nsubj |
| 12 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witches | det |
| 14 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 attacked | obj |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drove | cc |
| 16 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attacked | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drove | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADV | _ | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 drove | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Pûjinskwes | sisters = sister | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Pûjinskwes not said here | peaceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack | past | sisters = sister | the witches | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | sisters = sister not said here | sisters = sister | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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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