Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

Then, pointing to the heaven, He taught the names of the stars, With all the wonderful stories, The very old traditions, Of all that the planets had been.

Who acts: thing · What happens: point, teach, name · To what, where: heaven, names, stars

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 taught	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 taught	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 heaven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heaven	det
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pointing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pointing	punct
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taught	nsubj
9	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 names	det
11	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taught	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stars	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stars	det
14	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 names	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stories	punct
16	With	with	ADP	_	20 stories	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 stories	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stories	det
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stories	amod
20	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stars	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 traditions	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 traditions	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 old	advmod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 traditions	amod
25	traditions	tradition	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stars	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 been	punct
27	Of	of	ADP	_	29 that	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 that	det:predet
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 been	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 planets	det
31	planets	planet	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 been	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 taught	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	point	gerund	thing not said here		the heaven		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heaven=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	past	thing	the names of the stars and all wonderful stories and the old traditions		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
3	name			the stars and all wonderful stories and the old traditions			nom name «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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 3