Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 9
And as he did this he chanted A song which put her to sleep, A song of wonderful power.
Who acts: Kulóskap, song, wonderful power · What happens: do, chant, put, sleep, sing · To what, where: this, song, waagûkw
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, song, wonderful power), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chanted | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chanted | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 chanted | nsubj |
| 7 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chanted | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 song | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chanted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 power | amod |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Kulóskap | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chant | past | Kulóskap | a song | a song of wonderful power obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | |||
| 3 | put | past | a song | waagûkw | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | a song not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sing | wonderful power | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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