Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 88
The Pitcher had a hatchet, And so with much ado She cut herself (or himself), In time away from the tree.
Who acts: Pitcher, mighty · What happens: have, cut · To what, where: hatchet, mighty
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 (Pitcher, mighty), 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 Pitcher | det |
| 2 | Pitcher | Pitcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hatchet | det |
| 5 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 cut | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ado | case |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ado | amod |
| 11 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obl |
| 12 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 cut | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 himself | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 himself | cc |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 cut | obl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 himself | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 cut | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Pitcher | a hatchet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | mighty | mighty | with much ado; sorceress obl; away property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient with ado=Instrument |
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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