Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
In it the Golden Eagle Was a leading chief who married A female Caribou; And the Turtle, Kulóskap’s uncle, Married the only daughter Of the Eagle and Caribou.
Who acts: Golden Eagle, leading chief · What happens: lead, be, marry · To what, where: leading chief, tribe, female Caribou
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Golden Eagle, leading chief), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chief | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Eagle | det |
| 4 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Eagle | amod |
| 5 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chief | nsubj |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chief | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 8 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 chief | amod |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 married | nsubj |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chief | acl:relcl |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Caribou | det |
| 13 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Caribou | amod |
| 14 | Caribou | Caribou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Turtle | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Turtle | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Turtle | det |
| 18 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chief | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 uncle | punct |
| 20 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Kulóskap | case |
| 22 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Turtle | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Married | punct |
| 24 | Married | Married | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Turtle | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 daughter | det |
| 26 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 daughter | amod |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Married | appos |
| 28 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Eagle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Eagle | det |
| 30 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 daughter | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Caribou | cc |
| 32 | Caribou | Caribou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Eagle | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Golden Eagle | a leading chief and the Turtle and Married | tribe | the Turtle and Married conj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | marry | past | a leading chief and the Turtle and Married | a female Caribou | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caribou=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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