Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 5
And as they were very hungry, For he had come in a time When all of them were starving.
Who acts: rabbits, Master, all · What happens: be, come, starve
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 (rabbits, Master, all), 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 | _ | 6 hungry | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 hungry | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hungry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hungry | advmod |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hungry | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 starving | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 starving | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 all | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 starving | aux |
| 20 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | rabbits = rabbit | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Master | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | starve | past · progressive | all of rabbits | 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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