Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 68
He had long red hair and was the favorite bugaboo used by Indian mothers to frighten the children away from the water.
Who acts: P. · What happens: have, be, use, frighten · To what, where: long red hair, favorite bugaboo, children
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 (P.), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bugaboo | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bugaboo | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bugaboo | det |
| 9 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bugaboo | amod |
| 10 | bugaboo | bugaboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bugaboo | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 mothers | case |
| 13 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mothers | amod |
| 14 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 used | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 frighten | mark |
| 16 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frighten | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 frighten | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | P. | long red hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | P. not said here | the favorite bugaboo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | the favorite bugaboo not said here | by Indian mothers | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | frighten | to-infinitive | the children | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |
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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