Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

And many a thing he taught them: The noble art of hunting, How to build huts and canoes, And weirs to catch the fishes, And how to trap the beaver, And net the shad and salmon.

Who acts: many thing · What happens: teach, build, weir, catch, trap, net · To what, where: them, huts, fishes, beaver, shad

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many thing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 taught	cc
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thing	det
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	nsubj
6	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 taught	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 art	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 art	det
10	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 art	amod
11	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taught	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hunting	case
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 art	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 build	punct
15	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 build	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 build	mark
17	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 art	parataxis
18	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 build	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 canoes	cc
20	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 huts	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 weirs	punct
22	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 weirs	cc
23	weirs	weir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 build	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 weirs	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fishes	det
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 catch	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 trap	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 trap	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 trap	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 trap	mark
32	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 build	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 beaver	det
34	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trap	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 net	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 net	cc
37	net	net	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 trap	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shad	det
39	shad	shad	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 net	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 salmon	cc
41	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 shad	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	a many thing		them = they	thing nsubj; the noble art of hunting ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	build	to-infinitive		huts and canoes			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product
3	weir	present					tree rules
4	catch	to-infinitive		the fishes			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
5	trap	to-infinitive		the beaver			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Patient
6	net	infinitive		the shad and salmon			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme shad=Value

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 1