Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 73
This man was a Kiwaʿkw, a demon ghoul, Ice-giant--of that race which loves to prey Upon the tender flesh of man and babe.
Who acts: man, race · What happens: be, love · To what, where: prey
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 (man, race), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giant | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 giant | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Kiwaʿkw | det |
| 5 | Kiwaʿkw | Kiwaʿkw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 giant | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ghoul | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ghoul | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ghoul | compound |
| 9 | ghoul | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Kiwaʿkw | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ice | punct |
| 11 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 giant | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 giant | punct |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 race | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 race | det |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giant | appos |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 loves | nsubj |
| 19 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 race | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prey | mark |
| 21 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loves | obj |
| 22 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 flesh | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 flesh | det |
| 24 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flesh | amod |
| 25 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loves | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flesh | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 babe | cc |
| 29 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 man | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this man | a Kiwaʿkw nsubj; Ice nsubj; that race appos; giant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | present | that race | prey | upon the tender flesh of man and babe | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus |
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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