Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

Then the elder of the pilgrims, A reckless jolly fellow, Thinking it was a joke And that he was mocked for sport, Cut off nearly all the meat, And ate it.

Who acts: reckless jolly fellow, isle, joke · What happens: think, be, mock, cut off, eat · To what, where: joke, Bear, meat, isle, elder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (reckless jolly fellow, isle, joke), 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	3 elder	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elder	det
3	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pilgrims	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pilgrims	det
6	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 elder	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fellow	punct
8	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fellow	det
9	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fellow	amod
10	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fellow	amod
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 elder	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Thinking	punct
13	Thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 fellow	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 joke	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 joke	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 joke	det
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Thinking	ccomp
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 mocked	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 mocked	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mocked	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 mocked	aux:pass
22	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 joke	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 sport	case
24	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mocked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Cut	punct
26	Cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 joke	acl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 Cut	compound:prt
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	29 all	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 meat	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meat	det
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Cut	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ate	punct
33	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 ate	cc
34	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 joke	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ate	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 elder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	a reckless jolly fellow not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	isle	a joke		tree rules
3	mock	past · passive		Bear	for sport	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for sport=Attribute
4	cut off	participle	a joke not said here	all meat		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	eat	past		isle		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 54