Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 111
If any of his children did wrong he was to punish them with the whip.
Who acts: any, speech · What happens: do, be
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 (any, speech), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 did | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 any | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 punish | advcl |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 did | xcomp |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 punish | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 punish | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 punish | mark |
| 11 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 punish | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 whip | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whip | det |
| 15 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 punish | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 punish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | any of speech's children | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | speech | with the whip; children = child obj; punish 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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