Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 95
The Indians whooped again, And got out all their rattles, Which were made of turtle shell Containing little pebbles, And rattled with all their might In a daring dance to the Flood.
Who acts: Indians, turtle shell · What happens: whoop, get out, make, contain, rattle, dance · To what, where: rattles, little pebbles, 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 (Indians, turtle shell), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 whooped | nsubj |
| 3 | whooped | whoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 whooped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whooped | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 rattles | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rattles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rattles | rattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rattles | acl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shell | case |
| 17 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shell | compound |
| 18 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 19 | Containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 shell | acl |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pebbles | amod |
| 21 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Containing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rattled | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rattled | cc |
| 24 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 whooped | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 dance | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 dance | det:predet |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 dance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 dance | aux |
| 29 | In | in | ADP | _ | 32 dance | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dance | det |
| 31 | daring | daring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dance | amod |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rattled | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Flood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Flood | det |
| 35 | Flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rattled | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whoop speech: other | past | the Indians | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | the Indians not said here | Indians's rattles | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Indians's rattles | of turtle shell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | turtle shell not said here | little pebbles | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pebble=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rattle | participle | the Indians not said here | the Flood | with Indians's daring dance | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to flood=Recipient | |||
| 6 | rattle | Indians = indian | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | dance | Indians = indian | nom dance «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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