Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
So Malsum took his bow And, stealing through the woods Into his dark retreat, Shot Koʿkoʿkhas, the owl, And with his feathers struck Kulóskap while asleep.
Who acts: Malsum, feathers · What happens: take, steal, strike · To what, where: bow, woods, Kulóskap
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malsum, feathers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Malsum | Malsum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stealing | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stealing | punct |
| 8 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stealing | obl |
| 12 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 15 retreat | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 retreat | amod |
| 15 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Shot | punct |
| 17 | Shot | Shot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 18 | Koʿkoʿkhas | Koʿkoʿkhas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Shot | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 owl | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 owl | det |
| 21 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Shot | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 struck | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 struck | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 feathers | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 struck | nsubj |
| 27 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 struck | obj |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 asleep | mark |
| 30 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 struck | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Malsum | Malsum's bow | Shot obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | gerund | Malsum not said here | the woods | into Malsum's dark retreat | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location | |||
| 3 | strike | past | Malsum's feathers | Kulóskap | asleep property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent kulóskap=Instrument |
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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