Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
Thrice did he kick in pain Before he passed away.
Who acts: Thrice · What happens: kick, pass away · To what, where: pain
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thrice), 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 | Thrice | Thrice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kick | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kick | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kick | nsubj |
| 4 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kick | obl |
| 7 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 passed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kick | advcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 passed | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past · do-support | Thrice | pain | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass away | past | Thrice | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: 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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