Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 95
Pûjinskwes had many children Whose fathers were giants and monsters, Sorcerers and demons, But, as they all were hideous, She stole from the Indian women Their fairest babes, and pretended That they were all her own.
Who acts: Pûjinskwes, fathers, child · What happens: have, be, steal, pretend · To what, where: many children, giants, That
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 (Pûjinskwes, fathers, child), 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 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 giants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giants | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 giants | cop |
| 8 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 children | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 monsters | cc |
| 10 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giants | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sorcerers | punct |
| 12 | Sorcerers | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giants | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 demons | cc |
| 14 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giants | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stole | punct |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 stole | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 But | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 hideous | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hideous | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 they | det |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hideous | cop |
| 22 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stole | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hideous | punct |
| 24 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stole | nsubj |
| 25 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 women | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 women | det |
| 28 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 women | amod |
| 29 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stole | obl |
| 30 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 babes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 babes | amod |
| 32 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 women | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pretended | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pretended | cc |
| 35 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 36 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 pretended | obj |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 own | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 own | cop |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 own | advmod |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 own | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pretended | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Pûjinskwes | many children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | fathers | many children's giants and monsters and Sorcerers and demons | many children nmod:poss; monsters conj; Sorcerers conj; demons conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | fathers = father | hideous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | steal | past | child | from the Indian women fathers's fairest babes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pretend | past | Pûjinskwes not said here | That | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | fathers = father | child nmod:poss; all, own property | tree rules |
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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