Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 7
And when they laid them down To sleep, the Sagamore Said to the younger wolves: “Be sure and cover up The stranger with your tails.”
Who acts: others · What happens: lay down, sleep, be, cover up · To what, where: devils, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laid | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 laid | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 laid | compound:prt |
| 7 | To | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 laid | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Said | det |
| 11 | Sagamore | Sagamore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Said | compound |
| 12 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wolves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolves | det |
| 15 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 wolves | amod |
| 16 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 19 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laid | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cover | cc |
| 22 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 cover | compound:prt |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stranger | det |
| 25 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cover | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 tails | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 tails | nmod:poss |
| 28 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cover | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | others = other | devils = devil | to the younger wolves; the Sagamore Said obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cover up in a quote | present | the stranger | with your tails | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stranger=Destination with tail=Theme |
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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