Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 107
The Indians would bet on the various sports, hanging the prizes for each game on a pole.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: bet, hang · To what, where: prizes, pole
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 bet | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bet | aux |
| 4 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sports | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sports | det |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sports | amod |
| 8 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bet | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hanging | punct |
| 10 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bet | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prizes | det |
| 12 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hanging | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 game | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 game | det |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hanging | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pole | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pole | det |
| 18 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hanging | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | would | the Indians | on the various sports | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on sport=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | the Indians not said here | the prizes | a pole | for each game | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prize=Theme on pole=Destination |
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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