Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 6
Kulóskap turned it away, And killed the Beaver, too; At Mûschik he killed a moose; The bones are there e’en now, At Bar Harbor, turned to stone.
Who acts: Kulóskap · What happens: turn away, kill, e'en, turn · To what, where: Beaver, moose, Mûschik, bones, Bar, stone
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 (Kulóskap), 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 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 killed | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 killed | cc |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Beaver | det |
| 9 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 too | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 killed | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 13 | At | at | ADP | _ | 14 Mûschik | case |
| 14 | Mûschik | Mûschik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moose | det |
| 18 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 e’en | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bones | det |
| 21 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 e’en | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 e’en | aux:pass |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 e’en | advmod |
| 24 | e’en | e'en | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 turned | conj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 e’en | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Bar | punct |
| 27 | At | at | ADP | _ | 28 Bar | case |
| 28 | Bar | Bar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 e’en | obl |
| 29 | Harbor | Harbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Bar | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 e’en | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 stone | case |
| 33 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | Kulóskap | Beaver | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Kulóskap not said here | the Beaver | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | Kulóskap | a moose | Mûschik | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moose=Theme | |||
| 4 | e'en | present · passive | the bones | Bar; there | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | turn | participle | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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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