Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 3
And bade the little creature come to him; Back smiled the baby, but it did not budge.
Who acts: bade, Back · What happens: come, smile, not budge · To what, where: creature, baby
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade, Back), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 2 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
| 10 | Back | Back | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 smiled | nsubj |
| 11 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smiled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 budge | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 budge | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 budge | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 budge | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 budge | advmod |
| 19 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | bade | creature | the little creature nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | smile | past | Back | the baby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not budge | past · do-support | bade | tree rules |
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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