Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 132
Some hostile Mohawks fell upon that town, Killing the folk, all save the Priest and one, An Indian of many magic gifts.
Who acts: hostile Mohawks · What happens: fall, kill, save · To what, where: town, folk, Priest
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 (hostile Mohawks), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Mohawks | det |
| 2 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mohawks | amod |
| 3 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Killing | punct |
| 9 | Killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fell | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 folk | det |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Killing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 save | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 save | advmod |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Priest | det |
| 16 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 one | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Priest | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Indian | punct |
| 20 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Indian | det |
| 21 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 save | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gifts | case |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gifts | amod |
| 24 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gifts | amod |
| 25 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Indian | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | some hostile Mohawks | that town | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon town=Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | some hostile Mohawks not said here | the folk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | save | present | the Priest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme |
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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