Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 105
Then after they’d eaten that evening, He swept up the dirt from the wigwam And placed in his own bed the uncle.
Who acts: nephew · What happens: eat, sweep up, place · To what, where: Muttóntoe, dirt, wigwam, uncle, own bed
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 (nephew), 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 | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 evening | mark |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swept | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 swept | nsubj |
| 10 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 swept | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dirt | det |
| 13 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swept | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 wigwam | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wigwam | det |
| 16 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swept | obl |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 placed | cc |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 swept | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bed | amod |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 uncle | det |
| 24 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | Muttóntoe | then; evening | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sweep up | past | nephew | the dirt | the wigwam | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme from wigwam=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | place | participle | nephew not said here | the uncle | nephew's own bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bed=Destination |
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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