Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 82
One Was wondrous great and tall, The tallest in the land; Of this he was right proud, For he was one of those Who slyly put soft clay Into their moccasins That they may be admired By folk of lesser size, And win the love of squaws.
Who acts: One, Lord, folk · What happens: be, put, admire, win, love · To what, where: land, soft clay, moccasins, love, squaws
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 (One, Lord, folk), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 great | nsubj |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 3 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | amod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tall | cc |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tallest | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tallest | det |
| 9 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 great | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tallest | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 proud | punct |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 proud | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 proud | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 proud | cop |
| 18 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 proud | amod |
| 19 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 great | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 one | punct |
| 21 | For | for | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 one | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | cop |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 proud | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 those | case |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 put | nsubj |
| 28 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 29 put | advmod |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 those | acl:relcl |
| 30 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 clay | amod |
| 31 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 put | obj |
| 32 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 34 moccasins | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 34 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 put | obl |
| 35 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 admired | nsubj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 admired | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 admired | aux:pass |
| 39 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 moccasins | acl:relcl |
| 40 | By | by | ADP | _ | 41 folk | case |
| 41 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 admired | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 size | case |
| 43 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 size | amod |
| 44 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 folk | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 win | punct |
| 46 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 win | cc |
| 47 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 put | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 love | det |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 win | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 squaws | case |
| 51 | squaws | squaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 love | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | One not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | One not said here | the land | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Lord | of this; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Lord | for one; of those | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put | present | soft clay | BROTHERS's moccasins | Who nsubj; slyly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent clay=Goal | |||
| 7 | admire | may · passive | folk of lesser size | BROTHERS's moccasins | BROTHERS = brother nsubj:pass | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | win | infinitive | the love of squaws | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | love | squaws | nom love «feeling 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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