Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 9
Of all their slaughtered foes They first cut off the heads And stuck them up on stakes All over that fair isle.
Who acts: Abenakis · What happens: slaughter, cut off, stick up · To what, where: heads, Abenakis, stakes
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), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 foes | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 foes | det:predet |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 foes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 foes | amod |
| 5 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obl |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 cut | advmod |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heads | det |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stuck | cc |
| 13 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cut | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuck | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 stuck | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stakes | case |
| 17 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stuck | obl |
| 18 | All | all | ADV | _ | 22 isle | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 isle | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 isle | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 isle | amod |
| 22 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuck | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slaughter | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cut off | past | Abenakis = abenaki | the heads | of Abenakis's slaughtered foes; first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme of foe=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | stick up | past | Abenakis = abenaki not said here | Abenakis = abenaki | stakes | over that fair isle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on stake=Destination |
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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