Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 36
When the Turtle married, The Master bade him make A splendid feast, and for this He gave him wonderful power.
Who acts: Turtle, Master bade, Was · What happens: marry, make, give · To what, where: splendid feast, wonderful power, bade
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 (Turtle, Master bade, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 married | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bade | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bade | det |
| 7 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bade | compound |
| 8 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bade | obj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 this | case |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 gave | obl |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 power | amod |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the Turtle | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the Master bade Was | a splendid feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Was | wonderful power | bade | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient power=Theme for this=Asset |
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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