Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 68
My brother told me, many years ago, Some wizards had a quarrel, and they slew One of their number, took his corpse away And ate it on the isle of Grand Manan, Sitting upon a ledge above the sea.
Who acts: brother, wizards · What happens: tell, have, slay, take away, eat · To what, where: me, quarrel, One, corpse, isle · 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 (brother, wizards), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 wizards | det |
| 11 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quarrel | det |
| 14 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slew | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 slew | nsubj |
| 18 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 slew | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 number | nmod:poss |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 One | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slew | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 26 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ate | cc |
| 29 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 took | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ate | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 isle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 isle | det |
| 33 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ate | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Manan | case |
| 35 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Manan | amod |
| 36 | Manan | Manan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 isle | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Sitting | punct |
| 38 | Sitting | Sitting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Manan | conj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 ledge | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 ledge | det |
| 41 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ate | obl |
| 42 | above | above | ADP | _ | 44 sea | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sea | det |
| 44 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ledge | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | My brother | me | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | some wizards | a quarrel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slay | past | wizards = wizard | One of wizards's number | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | brother's corpse | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | past | corpse | the isle of Grand Manan and Sitting | upon a ledge above the sea | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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