Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 54

The wizards here eat their murdered comrade, evidently with the idea of absorbing into themselves some or all of his power.

Who acts: wizards, idea · What happens: eat, murder, absorb · To what, where: murdered comrade

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 (wizards, idea), 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 wizards	det
2	wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 wizards	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 comrade	nmod:poss
6	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 comrade	amod
7	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 idea	punct
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	12 idea	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 idea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 idea	det
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	parataxis
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 absorbing	mark
14	absorbing	absorb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 idea	acl
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 absorbing	obl
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 absorbing	xcomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 all	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 some	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 power	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 power	nmod:poss
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 all	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the wizards	wizards's murdered comrade	the idea parataxis	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient
2	murder	participle				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	absorb	gerund	the idea not said here		into wizards = wizard	vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 54