Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 53
“We have been killing serpents vile and eating them,” said he; “A serpent’s liver eaten giveth magic gifts to man.
Who acts: We, son, liver · What happens: kill, eat, say, give · To what, where: serpents, liver, magic gifts, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, son, liver), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 killing | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killing | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 killing | aux |
| 5 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killing | obj |
| 7 | vile | vile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 killing | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eating | cc |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 killing | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eating | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 killing | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 giveth | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 liver | punct |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 liver | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 serpent | case |
| 20 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giveth | nsubj |
| 21 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 liver | acl |
| 22 | giveth | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gifts | amod |
| 24 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 giveth | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 giveth | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | We | serpents | vile property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | We not said here | serpents = serpent | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | participle | a serpent's liver not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present | a serpent's liver | magic gifts | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to man=Recipient |
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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