Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 39
Thus it was Kulóskap the Great Made man: He took his arrows And shot at a tree--the ash, Known as the basket-tree.
Who acts: Miʿkumwessuk, man · What happens: be, take, shoot, know · To what, where: Kulóskap, arrows, tree, ash
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 (Miʿkumwessuk, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 Kulóskap | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Kulóskap | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kulóskap | cop |
| 4 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Made | flat |
| 7 | Made | Made | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 man | compound |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kulóskap | appos |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shot | cc |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 ash | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ash | det |
| 21 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Known | punct |
| 23 | Known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ash | acl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 26 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 basket | punct |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Known | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kulóskap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Miʿkumwessuk | Kulóskap | the Made man appos; thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | man | man's arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | man not said here | a tree and the ash | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at tree=Destination | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | the ash not said here | as the basket tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as tree=Attribute |
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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