Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 91
“He who made the chief Stay on a distant island, Is now stuck by the chief Fast with his back to a tree.”
Who acts: fragment, chief · What happens: make, stay, stick · To what, where: distant island
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 (fragment, chief), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 island | amod |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 13 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stuck | aux:pass |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 stuck | advmod |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl |
| 19 | Fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 stuck | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | fragment | who nsubj; chief property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | fragment not said here | a distant island | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 3 | stick in a quote | present · passive | the chief | now | with fragment's back; to a tree; fast property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with back=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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