Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 152
For there were venison, Bear hams and many ducks, Buckets of maple sugar, Others of cranberries, And many golden ears Of drying Indian corn.
Who acts: many golden ears · What happens: be, dry · To what, where: many golden ears, Indian corn
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 (many golden ears), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ears | cop |
| 4 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hams | punct |
| 6 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hams | compound |
| 7 | hams | ham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 venison | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ducks | cc |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ducks | amod |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 venison | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Buckets | punct |
| 12 | Buckets | bucket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 venison | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sugar | case |
| 14 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sugar | compound |
| 15 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Buckets | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Others | punct |
| 17 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 venison | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cranberries | case |
| 19 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Others | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ears | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ears | cc |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ears | amod |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ears | amod |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 25 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 drying | mark |
| 26 | drying | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 ears | acl |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 corn | amod |
| 28 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drying | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 ears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | many golden ears | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dry | gerund | many golden ears not said here | Indian corn | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient corn=Result |
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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