Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 13
Then they gave them food Enough to give them life Upon the journey home, In order that these maimed And harshly usèd foes Should tell the Iroquois In northern forest far That the Abenakis Were mightier than they.
Who acts: Abenakis, maimed foes, That · What happens: give, maim, tell, be · To what, where: food, prisoners, order, life, Abenakis, Iroquois · 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 (Abenakis, maimed foes, That), 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 | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | Enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 give | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 tell | mark |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 foes | det |
| 20 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 foes | amod |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 usèd | cc |
| 22 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 23 usèd | advmod |
| 23 | usèd | usèd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maimed | conj |
| 24 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 order | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Iroquois | det |
| 28 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obj |
| 29 | In | in | ADP | _ | 31 forest | case |
| 30 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forest | amod |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obl |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 mightier | advmod |
| 33 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 mightier | nsubj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Abenakis | det |
| 35 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 mightier | nsubj |
| 36 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 mightier | cop |
| 37 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 38 | than | than | ADP | _ | 39 they | case |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 mightier | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Abenakis = abenaki | food | prisoners = prisoner | order | then | enough property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme |
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Abenakis = abenaki not said here | life | Abenakis = abenaki | upon the journey; home property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient life=Theme | ||
| 3 | maim | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | should | this maimed foes | order not said here | the Iroquois | northern forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent iroquois=Recipient | ||
| 5 | is | past | That | than Abenakis = abenaki; far, mighty property | tree rules |
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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