Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 10
Then to their prisoners Whom they had saved alive, They gave a little thought.
Who acts: Abenakis · What happens: save, give · To what, where: prisoners, little thought
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abenakis), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 gave | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 prisoners | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 4 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Then | obl |
| 5 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saved | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | aux |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 prisoners | acl:relcl |
| 9 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saved | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thought | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | amod |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · perfect · passive | Abenakis's prisoners | Abenakis = abenaki nsubj; alive property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Abenakis = abenaki | a little thought | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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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