Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 110
In this wigwam, they were to make a big fire and, having made a switch or whip, to place “their father” as a guard over the wigwam with the whip in his hand.
Who acts: representatives · What happens: make · To what, where: big fire, wigwam, switch
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (representatives), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wigwam | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wigwam | det |
| 3 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wigwam | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fire | amod |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 make | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 switch | det |
| 17 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 whip | cc |
| 19 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 switch | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 place | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 place | mark |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | conj |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 father | punct |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | appos |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 father | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 guard | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 guard | det |
| 29 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 wigwam | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wigwam | det |
| 32 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 whip | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 whip | det |
| 35 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wigwam | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 whip | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | representatives = representative | a big fire | this wigwam | place as a guard over the wigwam with the whip in speech's hand conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||
| 2 | make | gerund · perfect | representatives = representative not said here | a switch or whip | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset switch=Product |
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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