Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 28
So crawling into _petegwîgun′s_ shade-- This was the magic round-house where the gods Give wisdom unto man--he lay in trance Until he saw a cruel wolverine, Which he at once knew well to be the foe.
Who acts: secret, This, gods · What happens: crawl, be, give, lie, see, know · To what, where: shade, magic round house, wisdom, trance, cruel wolverine, foe · 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 (secret, This, gods), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 crawling | advmod |
| 2 | crawling | crawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 lay | advcl |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 2 crawling | case |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 ′ | punct |
| 5 | petegwîgun | petegwîgun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ′ | compound |
| 6 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crawling | obl |
| 7 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 6 ′ | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 shade | punct |
| 9 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crawling | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 11 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 house | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 round | punct |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shade | appos |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 Give | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Give | nsubj |
| 21 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | acl:relcl |
| 22 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Give | obj |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Give | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 trance | case |
| 29 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | obl |
| 30 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 32 saw | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lay | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wolverine | det |
| 34 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wolverine | amod |
| 35 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knew | punct |
| 37 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 knew | obj |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 knew | nsubj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 once | case |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 knew | obl |
| 41 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wolverine | conj |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 knew | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 foe | mark |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 foe | cop |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 foe | det |
| 46 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 knew | ccomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | gerund | secret not said here | shade | 's petegwîgun ′ | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | This | the magic round house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | present | the gods | wisdom | unto man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme | |||
| 4 | lie | past | secret | trance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | past | secret | a cruel wolverine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolverine=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | know | past | secret | a cruel wolverine | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | the foe | 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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