Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 32
He who desired abundance, Had it in fullest measure, The wild deer came to his arrows, The fish leaped into his nets; As he gave freely to all, All gave as freely to him.
Who acts: Were, wild deer · What happens: desire, have, come, leap, give · To what, where: abundance, fullest measure, arrows, fish, nets, all
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Were, wild deer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Had | punct |
| 6 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 measure | case |
| 9 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 measure | amod |
| 10 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deer | amod |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Had | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 arrows | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fish | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrows | conj |
| 22 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fish | acl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 nets | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 nets | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 leaped | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 27 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 gave | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 desired | parataxis |
| 30 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 29 gave | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 gave | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gave | punct |
| 34 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 gave | advmod |
| 35 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gave | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 freely | case |
| 37 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 35 gave | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 gave | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Were | abundance | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot abundance=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Were not said here | abundance | fullest measure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | the wild deer | Were's arrows and the fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to arrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leap | participle | the fish not said here | Were's nets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into net=Destination | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Were | all | freely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient | |||
| 6 | give | past | Were not said here | Were | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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