Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 79
Picking out in this way the person of the Mohawk chief whose name was Lox (‘Wolverine’) the watching braves shot him first, owing to which calamity the Mohawks were thrown into confusion and fled.
Who acts: name, person, Lox · What happens: pick out, be, watch, shoot, owe, throw · To what, where: way, Lox, Wolverine, Mohawks, confusion
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 (name, person, Lox), 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 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picking | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shot | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 10 | Mohawk | Mohawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | compound |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 person | nmod |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lox | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Lox | cop |
| 15 | Lox | Lox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | nmod |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wolverine | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wolverine | punct |
| 18 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lox | appos |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wolverine | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wolverine | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 braves | det |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 braves | amod |
| 23 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shot | nsubj |
| 24 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shot | obj |
| 26 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 shot | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 owing | punct |
| 28 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picking | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 calamity | case |
| 30 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 31 calamity | det |
| 31 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thrown | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mohawks | det |
| 33 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 thrown | aux:pass |
| 35 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 owing | parataxis |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 confusion | case |
| 37 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 thrown | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 fled | cc |
| 39 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 thrown | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick out | gerund | this way | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Lox's name | Lox | Wolverine appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | watch | gerund | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | shoot | past | the person of the Mohawk chief | Wolverine | the watching braves nsubj; first property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | owe | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | throw | past · passive | the Mohawks | into confusion result; to which calamity | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into confusion=Result | ||||
| 7 | flee | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | name | Lox | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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