Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 113
His duty also was to keep replenishing the fire in the wigwam so that it should not go out.
Who acts: duty · What happens: be, replenish, not go out · To what, where: fire, wigwam
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 (duty), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 duty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 keep | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 keep | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | replenishing | replenish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replenishing | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wigwam | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wigwam | det |
| 12 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replenishing | obl |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 go | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 keep | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | speech's duty | keep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | replenish | gerund | speech's duty not said here | the fire | the wigwam | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Destination | |||
| 3 | not go out | should | duty | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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