Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 7
Then the Abenakis Swooped down with horrid cries And then slew all their foes Save only two.
Who acts: Abenakis, foes · What happens: swoop down, slay, save · To what, where: two
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, foes), 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 | 4 Swooped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Abenakis | det |
| 3 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Swooped | nsubj |
| 4 | Swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 Swooped | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cries | case |
| 7 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cries | amod |
| 8 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Swooped | obl |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slew | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 slew | advmod |
| 11 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Swooped | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 foes | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Save | nsubj |
| 15 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 slew | ccomp |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 two | advmod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Save | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop down | past | the Abenakis | then | with horrid cries; down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | slay | past | the Abenakis not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | present | Abenakis's foes | two | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme |
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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