Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 123
The father of the youth prepared a clean skin of the bear, beaver or deer, which he presented to his son.
Who acts: father, bear · What happens: prepare, present · To what, where: clean skin, son
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 (father, bear), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | nmod |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 8 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skin | amod |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prepared | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bear | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skin | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beaver | punct |
| 14 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 deer | cc |
| 16 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 presented | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 presented | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 presented | nsubj |
| 20 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presented | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | the father of the youth | a clean skin of the bear and beaver or deer | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | present | past | the bear and beaver or deer | father's son | father nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to son=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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