Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 78
When the fire was hot Nʾmokswes threw the imp, The child of an evil mother, Into the roaring flames, And it was burned to death.
Who acts: fire, hot Nʾmokswes · What happens: be, throw, burn · To what, where: imp, roaring flames, fire
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 (fire, hot Nʾmokswes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 hot | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fire | det |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Nʾmokswes | amod |
| 6 | Nʾmokswes | Nʾmokswes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 imp | det |
| 9 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 imp | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 child | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flames | punct |
| 18 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 21 flames | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flames | det |
| 20 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flames | compound |
| 21 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 threw | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 burned | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 burned | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burned | aux:pass |
| 26 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 threw | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fire | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | hot Nʾmokswes | the imp and the child of a evil mother | into the roaring flames result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer imp=Theme into flame=Result | |||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | fire | to death | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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