Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 21

[42] The old people say that seven beasts stole Kulóskap’s family from him and that he followed them to Newfoundland.

Who acts: 42 old people, seven beasts, Kulóskap · What happens: say, steal, follow · To what, where: family, beasts, Newfoundland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (42 old people, seven beasts, Kulóskap), 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	_	2 42	punct
2	42	42	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 42	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 stole	mark
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 beasts	nummod
10	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stole	nsubj
11	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
12	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 family	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Kulóskap	case
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stole	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stole	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 followed	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 followed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 followed	nsubj
20	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stole	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 followed	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Newfoundland	case
23	Newfoundland	Newfoundland	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 followed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the 42 old people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal	past	seven beasts	Kulóskap's family		from Kulóskap	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent family=Theme from he=Source
3	follow	past	Kulóskap	beasts = beast	Newfoundland		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to newfoundland=Trajectory

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 21