Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 102
Then when he heard how the nephew Had met with the terrible being, He said: “This in truth is Muttóntoe, Muttóntoe, the spirit of evil, Who yearns for the flesh of thy kinsman.
Who acts: infant, nephew, truth, Muttóntoe · What happens: hear, meet, say, be, yearn · To what, where: Muttóntoe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (infant, nephew, truth, Muttóntoe), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 met | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nephew | det |
| 7 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 8 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 terrible | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 terrible | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 met | obl |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 terrible | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Muttóntoe | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Muttóntoe | punct |
| 19 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 truth | det |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 truth | case |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Muttóntoe | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Muttóntoe | cop |
| 23 | Muttóntoe | Muttóntoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Muttóntoe | punct |
| 25 | Muttóntoe | Muttóntoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Muttóntoe | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spirit | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spirit | det |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Muttóntoe | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 evil | case |
| 30 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spirit | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 yearns | punct |
| 32 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 yearns | nsubj |
| 33 | yearns | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Muttóntoe | parataxis |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 flesh | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 flesh | det |
| 36 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 yearns | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 kinsman | case |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 kinsman | nmod:poss |
| 39 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flesh | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | infant | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | the nephew | with the terrible | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with terrible=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | infant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this truth | Muttóntoe and Muttóntoe | the spirit of evil appos | tree rules | |||
| 5 | yearn in a quote | present | Muttóntoe and Muttóntoe | for the flesh of thy kinsman | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for flesh=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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