Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 136
With merry whoop they started up the fires; Began at once to heat the torture pots.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: start up, heat · To what, where: fires, torture pots
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 whoop | case |
| 2 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whoop | amod |
| 3 | whoop | whoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fires | det |
| 8 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 started | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Began | punct |
| 10 | Began | Began | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 started | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 heat | mark |
| 14 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pots | det |
| 16 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pots | compound |
| 17 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | Mohawks = mohawk | the fires | with merry whoop; Began obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality with whoop=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | heat | to-infinitive | Mohawks = mohawk not said here | the torture pots | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient |
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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