Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 24
The brother, having obtained the scrapings of the horn, merely touches with them a large green beech tree which becomes dead in an instant and then falls to the ground, actually rotten as if it were a century old.
Who acts: brother, large green beech tree, tree · What happens: obtain, become, fall, be · To what, where: scrapings, instant, century, brother
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, large green beech tree, tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obtained | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 obtained | aux |
| 5 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 brother | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 scrapings | det |
| 7 | scrapings | scraping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 obtained | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 horn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horn | det |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scrapings | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touches | punct |
| 12 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 13 touches | advmod |
| 13 | touches | touch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scrapings | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touches | nmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | amod |
| 19 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scrapings | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 becomes | nsubj |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | acl:relcl |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 instant | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 instant | det |
| 26 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 falls | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 falls | advmod |
| 29 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 becomes | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 ground | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ground | det |
| 32 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 falls | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rotten | punct |
| 34 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 35 rotten | advmod |
| 35 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 falls | parataxis |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 century | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 century | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 century | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 century | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 century | det |
| 41 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rotten | conj |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 century | amod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | gerund · perfect | the brother not said here | the scrapings of the horn a large green beech tree and touches with touches | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scraping=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | present | a large green beech tree | in a instant result; dead property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Result | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | a large green beech tree not said here | then | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | tree | a century | tree rules |
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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