Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 60
So those who were beneath When it fell and struck the ground Were ever crushed to death.
What happens: be, strike, crush · To what, where: ground, those
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 crushed | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | cop |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 fell | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 13 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crushed | aux:pass |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 crushed | advmod |
| 15 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crushed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 crushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | who nsubj; way nsubj; beneath, fall property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strike | past | the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | |||||
| 3 | crush | past · passive | those | ever | to death result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result |
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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