Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 91
The Indian at once believed the demon’s given word And gave him back the yellow charm which brings the power of flight.
Who acts: yellow charm, demon · What happens: believe, give, give back, bring, word · To what, where: given word, yellow charm, DEMON, power
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 (yellow charm, demon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 believed | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 believed | advmod |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Indian | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 demon | det |
| 7 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 demon | case |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | obj |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 gave | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 charm | det |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 charm | amod |
| 17 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 brings | nsubj |
| 19 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 charm | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 power | det |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brings | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flight | case |
| 23 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 power | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | the demon's given word | once property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | give back | past | the yellow charm | DEMON | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient charm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | the yellow charm | the power of flight | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word | the demon | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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