Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 8

They married and had two children One of them was a boy, A boy who was blind from his birth.

Who acts: Color, two children, boy · What happens: marry, have, be · To what, where: boy, birth

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 (Color, two children, boy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 married	conj
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 children	nummod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 boy	nsubj
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 boy	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 One	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 boy	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	appos
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 blind	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 blind	cop
18	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 boy	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 birth	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 birth	nmod:poss
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blind	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marry	past	Color				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	Color not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	two children	a boy		One of Color nsubj	tree rules
4	is	past	a boy		man's birth	blind property	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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 8