Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 48
Pûjinskwes the witch and devil Was also one of the Black Cats; She was woman or man as she listed, But in those days she lived as a man; And, because she hated the chieftain, She thought how she might kill him, And take his place in the tribe.
Who acts: death · What happens: be, list, live, hate, think, kill · To what, where: woman, man, chieftain, Was, place, tribe · 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 (death), 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 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pûjinskwes | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 devil | cc |
| 5 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pûjinskwes | conj |
| 6 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Cats | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cats | det |
| 11 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Cats | compound |
| 12 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 woman | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 woman | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | cop |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | appos |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woman | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 listed | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 listed | nsubj |
| 21 | listed | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lived | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 lived | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 25 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 days | det |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lived | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 thought | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 thought | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 And | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 hated | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hated | nsubj |
| 37 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 thought | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 chieftain | det |
| 39 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hated | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hated | punct |
| 41 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 thought | nsubj |
| 42 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | parataxis |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 kill | advmod |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | nsubj |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 kill | aux |
| 46 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 thought | ccomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 take | punct |
| 49 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 take | cc |
| 50 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 thought | ccomp |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 place | nmod:poss |
| 52 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 take | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 tribe | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 tribe | det |
| 55 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 take | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | death | woman or man | man conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | list | past | death | man not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | death | day | as a man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hate | past | death | the chieftain | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chieftain=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | death | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill | might | death | Was | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | infinitive | Was's place | the tribe | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in tribe=Location |
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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