Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 135
They all agreed to heat two earthen pots On fiery coals unto the whitest heat; Then place these pots upon the head of each And watch them dance about till life was spent.
Who acts: place, Mohawks · What happens: agree, heat, pot, watch, dance, spend · To what, where: Mohawks, two earthen pots, life
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 (place, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 heat | mark |
| 5 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pots | nummod |
| 7 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pots | amod |
| 8 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heat | obj |
| 9 | On | on | ADP | _ | 11 coals | case |
| 10 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coals | amod |
| 11 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pots | nmod |
| 12 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 15 heat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heat | det |
| 14 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 heat | amod |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coals | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pots | punct |
| 17 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 place | advmod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pots | nsubj |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 pots | det |
| 20 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pots | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 head | nmod |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 watch | cc |
| 27 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 watch | obj |
| 29 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 watch | xcomp |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 dance | advmod |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 spent | mark |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 spent | aux:pass |
| 34 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dance | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle · passive | Mohawks = mohawk | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | heat not said to happen | to-infinitive | two earthen pots | on fiery coals unto the whitest heat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient on coal=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | pot | place | upon the head of each | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dance | infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | spend | past · passive | life | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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