Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 57
So Kulóskap the Great, Lord of all things that are, Did question all the beasts, Changing their size or strength, Or measuring out their lives, According to their answers.
Who acts: Kulóskap, Beasts · What happens: do, change, measure out, accord, answer · To what, where: question, size, lives
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 (Kulóskap, Beasts), 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 | _ | 2 Kulóskap | advmod |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Did | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Great | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Kulóskap | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lord | punct |
| 6 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kulóskap | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Lord | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 are | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kulóskap | punct |
| 13 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Did | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 beasts | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beasts | det |
| 17 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Did | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Changing | punct |
| 19 | Changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Did | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 size | nmod:poss |
| 21 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Changing | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 strength | cc |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 size | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 measuring | punct |
| 25 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 measuring | cc |
| 26 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 Changing | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 measuring | compound:prt |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lives | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 measuring | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 answers | punct |
| 31 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 answers | case |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 According | fixed |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 answers | nmod:poss |
| 34 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 measuring | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Kulóskap and Lord of all things | question | all beasts obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | gerund | Kulóskap and Lord of all things not said here | Beasts's size or strength | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | ||||
| 3 | measure out | gerund | Kulóskap and Lord of all things not said here | Beasts's lives | accord Beasts's answers | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | answer | Beasts = beast | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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