Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
However it came to pass That the Turtle grew mightily All in his own conceit, And thought he could take the place Of the Master and reign in his stead; So he called together a council Of all the beasts, to find How Kulóskap might be slain.
Who acts: feast, Turtle, lord · What happens: come, pass, grow, think, take, call together · To what, where: That, own conceit, place, council, Kulóskap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (feast, Turtle, lord), 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 | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pass | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Turtle | det |
| 8 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | conj |
| 10 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 11 All | advmod |
| 11 | All | all | ADV | _ | 15 conceit | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 conceit | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 conceit | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 conceit | amod |
| 15 | conceit | conceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Master | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Master | det |
| 26 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 place | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reign | cc |
| 28 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Master | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 stead | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 stead | nmod:poss |
| 31 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reign | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 called | punct |
| 33 | So | so | ADV | _ | 35 called | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 called | nsubj |
| 35 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 35 called | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 council | det |
| 38 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 called | xcomp |
| 39 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 42 beasts | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 beasts | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 beasts | det |
| 42 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 council | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 find | punct |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 find | mark |
| 45 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 called | advcl |
| 46 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 slain | advmod |
| 47 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 slain | nsubj |
| 48 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 slain | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 50 slain | aux:pass |
| 50 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 find | ccomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | feast | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | feast not said here | That | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the Turtle | lord's own conceit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in conceit=Location | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | feast not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | could | lord | the place of the Master and reign in lord's stead | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call together speech: assert | past | lord | a council of all beasts | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | lord not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | slay | might · passive | Kulóskap | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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