Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 46
Then the Lord Kulóskap Saw that the Moose was too strong; So he made him smaller and weaker So that the Indians could kill him.
Who acts: Lord Kulóskap, Moose, Kulóskap, Indians · What happens: see, be, make, kill · To what, where: Teâm
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 (Lord Kulóskap, Moose, Kulóskap, Indians), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kulóskap | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kulóskap | compound |
| 4 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Saw | nsubj |
| 5 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 strong | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moose | det |
| 8 | Moose | Moose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 strong | advmod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Saw | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Saw | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 weaker | cc |
| 19 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 smaller | conj |
| 20 | So | so | ADV | _ | 25 kill | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 kill | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Indians | det |
| 23 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Lord Kulóskap | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Moose | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Kulóskap | Teâm | small property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | |||
| 4 | kill | could | the Indians | Teâm | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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