Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 3
However, others declare That by this rock the Beaver Was killed while swimming away; For thus the tale was told By a Penobscot woman As she sat weaving a basket, A basket or _abaznoda_ Of that sweet-scented grass Which Indians dearly love.
Who acts: others, Beaver, Penobscot woman, Was · What happens: declare, kill, swim away, tell, sit, weave · To what, where: That, rock, tale, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Beaver, Penobscot woman, Was), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 declare | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 declare | nsubj |
| 4 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 declare | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 declare | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Beaver | det |
| 10 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 11 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rock | acl:relcl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 swimming | mark |
| 14 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 killed | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 swimming | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 17 | For | for | ADP | _ | 18 thus | case |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 22 told | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tale | det |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | aux:pass |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 declare | parataxis |
| 23 | By | by | ADP | _ | 26 woman | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 woman | det |
| 25 | Penobscot | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 woman | compound |
| 26 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obl |
| 27 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 sat | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sat | nsubj |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | advcl |
| 30 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 sat | xcomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 basket | det |
| 32 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weaving | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 basket | punct |
| 34 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 basket | det |
| 35 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 told | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 abaznoda | cc |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 abaznoda | punct |
| 38 | abaznoda | abaznoda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 basket | conj |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 45 grass | punct |
| 40 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 45 grass | case |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 grass | nsubj |
| 42 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 grass | amod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 sweet | punct |
| 44 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 grass | amod |
| 45 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 basket | appos |
| 46 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 Indians | nsubj |
| 47 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 45 grass | nmod |
| 48 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 love | amod |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Indians | vocative |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 declare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | others | That | by this rock; however property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the Beaver | this rock not said here | Was nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||
| 3 | swim away | gerund | the Beaver not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | a Penobscot woman | the tale | a basket or abaznoda obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 5 | sit | past | Was | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | weave | gerund | Was not said here | a basket | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Product | ||||
| 7 | scent | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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