Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 55
They both shot at a white sable, killing the animal by their joint effort, but each lad claimed it as his game.
Who acts: sons, lad · What happens: shot, kill, claim · To what, where: white sable, animal
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 (sons, lad), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sable | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sable | det |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sable | amod |
| 7 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shot | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killing | punct |
| 9 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shot | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 animal | det |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 effort | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 effort | nmod:poss |
| 14 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 effort | compound |
| 15 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 claimed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 claimed | cc |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 lad | det |
| 19 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 claimed | nsubj |
| 20 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 claimed | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 game | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 game | nmod:poss |
| 24 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 claimed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shot | present | sons = son | a white sable | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | sons = son not said here | the animal | by sons's joint effort | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 3 | claim speech: other | past | each lad | animal | as lad's game | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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