Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 124
Provided with this, the suitor went to the wigwam of his prospective bride’s father and placed the hide at the back of the wigwam or _nowteh_.
Who acts: suitor · What happens: provide, go, place · To what, where: wigwam, hide, back
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 (suitor), 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 | Provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Provided | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 suitor | det |
| 6 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Provided | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wigwam | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wigwam | det |
| 10 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prospective | prospective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bride | amod |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wigwam | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 placed | cc |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hide | det |
| 20 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 back | det |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wigwam | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wigwam | det |
| 26 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | nmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 nowteh | cc |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 nowteh | punct |
| 29 | nowteh | nowteh | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 placed | conj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | participle | with this | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with this=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the suitor | the wigwam of suitor's prospective bride's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | place | past | the suitor not said here | the hide | the back of the wigwam | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme at back=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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