Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
The latter even offered the life of his own son who had been guilty of the murder, but all to no purpose.
Who acts: latter, own son · What happens: offer, be · To what, where: life, guilty
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 (latter, own son), 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 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 offered | advmod |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 life | det |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guilty | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 guilty | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 guilty | cop |
| 14 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 murder | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 murder | det |
| 17 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guilty | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 all | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 all | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 offered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 purpose | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 purpose | det |
| 23 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the latter | the life of latter's own son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | latter's own son | guilty | of the murder | 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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