Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
So, in despair, Kulóskap gave it up, And Waʾsis, ever sitting on the floor In the warm sunshine, went “Goo! goo!” and crowed; That was his infant crow of victory.
Who acts: Kulóskap, That · What happens: give up, sit, go, crow, be · To what, where: despair, floor, Goo, infant crow
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 (Kulóskap, That), 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 | _ | 7 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
| 6 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gave | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Waʾsis | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Waʾsis | cc |
| 12 | Waʾsis | Waʾsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 gave | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 19 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 sunshine | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sunshine | det |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sunshine | amod |
| 22 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Goo | punct |
| 26 | Goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 goo | punct |
| 28 | goo | goo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Goo | appos |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 goo | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Goo | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 crowed | cc |
| 32 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 crow | punct |
| 34 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 crow | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 crow | cop |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 crow | nmod:poss |
| 37 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 crow | amod |
| 38 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 victory | case |
| 40 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crow | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | Kulóskap | despair | despair | Waʾsis obl | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | ||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Kulóskap not said here | the floor | ever | in the warm sunshine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | ||
| 3 | go | past | Kulóskap not said here | Goo | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crow | past | Kulóskap not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | That | Kulóskap's infant crow | of victory; Kulóskap nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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