Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
Then, whooping with the cry Of war which chills the soul, The fierce Abenakis Awoke the Iroquois Who, paralyzed with fright, Rushed straight to their canoes Which sank in mid-stream all-- The work of wizard teeth.
Who acts: war, Abenakis Awoke, canoes, wizard teeth · What happens: whoop, chill, paralyze, rush, sink, cry · To what, where: soul, canoes, mid-stream
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 (war, Abenakis Awoke, canoes, wizard teeth), 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 whooping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 whooping | punct |
| 3 | whooping | whoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cry | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cry | det |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whooping | obl |
| 7 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cry | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 chills | nsubj |
| 10 | chills | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 war | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soul | det |
| 12 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chills | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 whooping | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Awoke | det |
| 15 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Abenakis | amod |
| 16 | Abenakis | Abenakis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Awoke | compound |
| 17 | Awoke | Awoke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 whooping | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Iroquois | det |
| 19 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Awoke | appos |
| 20 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 paralyzed | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 paralyzed | punct |
| 22 | paralyzed | paralyze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Awoke | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 fright | case |
| 24 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paralyzed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Rushed | punct |
| 26 | Rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Awoke | parataxis |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 30 canoes | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 canoes | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Rushed | obl |
| 31 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 sank | nsubj |
| 32 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 canoes | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 mid-stream | case |
| 34 | mid-stream | mid-stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sank | obl |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 sank | advmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 work | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 work | det |
| 38 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Awoke | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 teeth | case |
| 40 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 teeth | amod |
| 41 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 work | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whooping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whoop speech: other | gerund | then | with the cry of war; the Abenakis Awoke parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | chill | present | war | the soul | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | paralyze | participle | the Abenakis Awoke | with fright | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fright=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | rush | participle | holes's canoes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to canoe=Destination | |||||
| 5 | sink | past | holes's canoes | mid-stream | all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | cry | war | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | work | wizard teeth | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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