Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
It is highly interesting to notice that these twins were born from an unknown divine mother, the good Kulóskap in the natural manner, and the evil Wolf through the woman’s side, a method which he deliberately chose in order to kill his mother.
Who acts: Kulóskap · What happens: be, notice, bear, choose, kill · To what, where: twins, method, order, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 interesting | cop |
| 3 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 4 interesting | advmod |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 notice | mark |
| 6 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 interesting | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 born | mark |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 twins | det |
| 9 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 notice | ccomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 14 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 15 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | compound |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kulóskap | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kulóskap | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Kulóskap | amod |
| 20 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 manner | det |
| 23 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 manner | amod |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Kulóskap | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wolf | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Wolf | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Wolf | det |
| 28 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Wolf | amod |
| 29 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 side | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 woman | case |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Wolf | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 method | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 method | det |
| 37 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Wolf | conj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 chose | obj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 chose | nsubj |
| 40 | deliberately | deliberately | ADV | _ | 41 chose | advmod |
| 41 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 method | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 order | case |
| 43 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 chose | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 kill | mark |
| 45 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 chose | advcl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 mother | nmod:poss |
| 47 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 kill | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | highly, interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | this twins | from a unknown divine mother; the evil Wolf through the woman's side and a method obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | choose | past | Kulóskap | a method | order | deliberately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap's mother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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