Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 143
Then the other answering told How he met the man and his wife Who danced around the tree: Whereat the man of the house Offered to buy the skin At any price at all, And offered the house for it.
Who acts: other, skin, wife · What happens: answer, tell, meet, dance, offer, buy · To what, where: man, tree, skin, price, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, skin, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 other | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 met | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wife | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | conj |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wife | acl:relcl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Offered | punct |
| 20 | Whereat | whereat | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 Offered | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Offered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | nmod |
| 26 | Offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 buy | mark |
| 28 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Offered | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 skin | det |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 buy | obj |
| 31 | At | at | ADP | _ | 33 price | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 price | det |
| 33 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 buy | obl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 price | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 offered | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 offered | cc |
| 38 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 offered | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 offered | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the other | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | skin | the man and skin's wife | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | dance | past | skin's wife | the tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | offer | participle · passive | the man of the house | whereat property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | the skin | any price at all | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent skin=Theme at price=Asset | ||||
| 7 | offer | past | the other not said here | the house | for house | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent house=Theme for it=Goal |
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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