Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 45
The Mohawks invariably treated their prisoners with the most merciless severity, showing no pity even to the women and children.
Who acts: Mohawks · What happens: treat, show · To what, where: prisoners, pity, women
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mohawks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mohawks | det |
| 2 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treated | nsubj |
| 3 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 4 treated | advmod |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treated | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 severity | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 severity | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 merciless | advmod |
| 10 | merciless | merciless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 severity | amod |
| 11 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showing | punct |
| 13 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 treated | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 pity | det |
| 15 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showing | obj |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 women | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 women | det |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showing | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 children | cc |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 women | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the Mohawks | Mohawks's prisoners | with the merciless severity; invariably property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Recipient with severity=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | gerund | the Mohawks not said here | no pity | the women and children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pity=Topic to woman=Recipient |
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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