Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 113
She seized the lad and bore him off and fed him in her den.
Who acts: mother · What happens: seize, bear off, feed · To what, where: lad, den
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seized | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bore | cc |
| 6 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bore | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 bore | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fed | cc |
| 10 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fed | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 den | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 den | nmod:poss |
| 14 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | mother | the lad | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear off | past | mother not said here | lad | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | mother not said here | lad | mother's den | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in den=Location |
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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