Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 69
The first whom he overtook Was his mother bearing his brother; Nʾmokswes, that is the Sable, Or as others say the Marten.
Who acts: Brother, first, mother, that, others · What happens: overtake, be, bear, say · To what, where: mother, brother, Sable, Marten · 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 (Brother, first, mother, that), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 mother | nsubj |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 overtook | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overtook | nsubj |
| 5 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 first | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mother | cop |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mother | acl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bearing | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Nʾmokswes | punct |
| 13 | Nʾmokswes | Nʾmokswes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Sable | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Sable | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Sable | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sable | det |
| 18 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nʾmokswes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 20 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 say | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mother | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Marten | det |
| 25 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 say | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | Brother | whom obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first | Brother's mother | Brother nmod:poss; Nʾmokswes and the Sable appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bear | gerund | Brother's mother not said here | Brother's brother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the Sable | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | others | the Marten | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent marten=Topic |
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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