Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
And, combing his hair, placed on it A fillet of wondrous virtue; For when he had bound it on He became a wigʾladʾmûch A fairy and enchanter, No longer a common mortal, But one of the elfin world.
Who acts: Badger · What happens: comb, place, bind, become · To what, where: hair, fillet, wigʾladʾmûch
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 (Badger), 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 | _ | 3 combing | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 combing | punct |
| 3 | combing | comb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 combing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 placed | punct |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 combing | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 placed | obl |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fillet | det |
| 11 | fillet | fillet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 virtue | case |
| 13 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 virtue | amod |
| 14 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fillet | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bound | punct |
| 16 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 bound | mark |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 bound | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bound | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bound | aux |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 placed | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bound | obj |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 24 became | mark |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bound | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wigʾladʾmûch | det |
| 26 | wigʾladʾmûch | wigʾladʾmûch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | xcomp |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fairy | det |
| 28 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 enchanter | cc |
| 30 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fairy | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 mortal | punct |
| 32 | No | no | ADV | _ | 33 longer | advmod |
| 33 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 mortal | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mortal | det |
| 35 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mortal | amod |
| 36 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fairy | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 one | punct |
| 38 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 one | cc |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 combing | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 42 | elfin | elfin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 world | amod |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 one | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 combing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comb | gerund | Badger's hair | one of the elfin world obl | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | a fillet of wondrous virtue | hair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fillet=Theme on it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bind | past · perfect | Badger | fillet | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Badger | a wigʾladʾmûch | a fairy and enchanter and a common mortal xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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