Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 6
So then, with sore ado, For she was very weak, The old dame tottered out And brought in one by one Four beavers; but she had Such trouble to cut them up, That the elder of the pilgrims Said to the youngest, “_Nchígŭnŭm!
Who acts: woman, Such trouble, elder · What happens: be, totter out, bring, have, cut up, say · To what, where: old dame, Such trouble, beavers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, Such trouble, elder), 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 | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 had | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ado | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ado | case |
| 5 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ado | amod |
| 6 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 then | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weak | punct |
| 8 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 weak | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weak | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 weak | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 weak | advmod |
| 12 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ado | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dame | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dame | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dame | amod |
| 16 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ado | conj |
| 17 | tottered | totter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 dame | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 tottered | compound:prt |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tottered | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 brought | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 beavers | nummod |
| 26 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 trouble | amod |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 cut | mark |
| 34 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cut | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 cut | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 elder | punct |
| 38 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 elder | det |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 elder | det |
| 40 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cut | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 pilgrims | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 pilgrims | det |
| 43 | pilgrims | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Said | obl |
| 44 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 elder | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 youngest | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 youngest | det |
| 47 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 Said | ccomp |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Nchígŭnŭm | punct |
| 49 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Nchígŭnŭm | punct |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 Nchígŭnŭm | punct |
| 51 | Nchígŭnŭm | Nchígŭnŭm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 youngest | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | totter out | participle | the old dame not said here | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | in one by one Four beavers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | woman | Such trouble | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | cut up | to-infinitive | Such trouble not said here | beavers = beaver | that elder obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | that elder not said here | of the pilgrims | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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