Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
When the Great Flood was coming, Kulóskap the awful prophet, Gave them full warning of it.
Who acts: Great Flood · What happens: come, give, warn · To what, where: Kulóskap, full warning, RATTLESNAKES, Flood
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 (Great Flood), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 coming | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Flood | det |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Flood | amod |
| 4 | Flood | Flood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Gave | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulóskap | punct |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prophet | det |
| 10 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prophet | amod |
| 11 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 13 | Gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Gave | iobj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 warning | amod |
| 16 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Gave | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warning | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | the Great Flood | Kulóskap | the awful prophet obl:unmarked | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | full warning of Flood | RATTLESNAKES = rattlesnake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient warning=Theme | ||||
| 3 | warn | Flood | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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