Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 78
Gladly the Whirlwind gave up his captive, And the son of the Mountain carried him home.
Who acts: Whirlwind, son · What happens: give up, carry · To what, where: captive, LEAF
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whirlwind, son), 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 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Whirlwind | det |
| 3 | Whirlwind | Whirlwind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 captive | nmod:poss |
| 7 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Mountain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mountain | det |
| 14 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the Whirlwind | son's captive | gladly property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Source | |||
| 2 | carry | past | the son of the Mountain | LEAF | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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