Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 12
The young man first presented the bride-elect with a new dress.
Who acts: young man · What happens: present · To what, where: bride elect
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 presented | advmod |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 elect | det |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 elect | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bride | punct |
| 9 | elect | elect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 dress | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dress | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dress | amod |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 elect | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the young man | the bride elect | with a new dress; first property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent elect=Recipient with dress=Theme |
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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