Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
Twas but a little whale; It came unto the Lord, But he was now a giant; He stepped upon the whale.
Who acts: Twas, KULÓSKAP · What happens: come, be, step
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twas, 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 whale | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whale | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whale | amod |
| 5 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twas | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 11 Lord | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 giant | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 giant | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 giant | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 giant | cop |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 giant | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 stepped | punct |
| 20 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stepped | nsubj |
| 21 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 whale | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 whale | det |
| 24 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stepped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Twas but a little whale | unto the Lord; spot nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | now | giant property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | step | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | upon the whale | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon whale=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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