Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 116
All these were to go within the fence and dwell there, and if any should do wrong they would be liable to punishment with the whip at the hands of “their father.”
Who acts: these, any, tribes · What happens: go, dwell, do, be · To what, where: wrong
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 (these, any, tribes), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 these | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 fence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fence | det |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dwell | cc |
| 10 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 dwell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | parataxis |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 liable | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 liable | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 liable | cop |
| 22 | liable | liable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 do | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 punishment | case |
| 24 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 liable | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 whip | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 whip | det |
| 27 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 punishment | nmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 hands | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hands | det |
| 30 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 whip | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 father | case |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 father | punct |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hands | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | these | within the fence | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | infinitive | these not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | should | any | wrong | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | would | tribes = tribe | to punishment with the whip at the hands of tribes's father; liable 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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