Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 58
Old Lacote was a wizard made a trap, A deadfall trap for bear off in the woods.
Who acts: Lacote, Old wizard · What happens: be, make off · To what, where: Old wizard, trap, woods
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 (Lacote, Old wizard), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wizard | amod |
| 2 | Lacote | Lacote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wizard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wizard | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wizard | det |
| 5 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 trap | det |
| 8 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trap | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trap | det |
| 11 | deadfall | deadfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trap | compound |
| 12 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trap | appos |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trap | nmod |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lacote | a Old wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make off | past | a Old wizard | a trap | the woods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Product |
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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