Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 8
But Kulóskap put the devils One by one as he found them Under a wooden platter Which was lying close beside him.
Who acts: Kulóskap, wooden platter · What happens: put, find, lie · To what, where: devils, wooden platter
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 (Kulóskap, wooden platter), 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 | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devils | det |
| 5 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 devils | flat |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 One | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 16 platter | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 platter | det |
| 15 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 platter | amod |
| 16 | platter | platter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lying | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lying | aux |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 platter | acl:relcl |
| 20 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 lying | advmod |
| 21 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Kulóskap | the devils | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent devil=Goal | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Kulóskap | devils = devil | a wooden platter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | a wooden platter | beside Kulóskap; close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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