Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 56
Now the chieftain of the Piktook Had three very beautiful daughters, And of the three, the youngest Was the loveliest in the land.
Who acts: chieftain · What happens: have · To what, where: three beautiful daughters
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 (chieftain), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chieftain | det |
| 3 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Piktook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Piktook | det |
| 6 | Piktook | Piktook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chieftain | nmod |
| 7 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughters | nummod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daughters | amod |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 loveliest | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 loveliest | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 three | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 three | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 loveliest | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 three | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loveliest | det |
| 19 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 loveliest | amod |
| 20 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 loveliest | nsubj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loveliest | det |
| 22 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 Had | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 loveliest | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the chieftain of the Piktook | three beautiful daughters | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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