Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 86
I’ll make for him now a great basket And line it with soft, downy feathers.
Who acts: I · What happens: make, line · To what, where: great basket, basket
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obl |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 basket | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 basket | amod |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 line | cc |
| 11 | line | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 line | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 feathers | case |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soft | punct |
| 16 | downy | downy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 17 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 line | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | I | a great basket | for uncle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | line | present | I not said here | basket | with soft downy feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with feather=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/15/86/