Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 112
So she went boldly on, Till she beheld below, The bottom of the sea With many shells on it; And then she said in fear: “The land, does it not seem To thee like a bow-string?”
Who acts: Marten, land, it · What happens: go, behold, say, do, not seem · To what, where: bottom, fear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Marten, land, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beheld | punct |
| 7 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 beheld | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beheld | nsubj |
| 9 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | below | below | ADV | _ | 9 beheld | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bottom | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bottom | det |
| 13 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beheld | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bottom | nmod |
| 17 | With | with | ADP | _ | 19 shells | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shells | amod |
| 19 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beheld | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shells | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 said | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fear | case |
| 28 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 does | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 does | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 does | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 land | punct |
| 34 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seem | nsubj |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 seem | advmod |
| 37 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 does | ccomp |
| 38 | To | to | ADP | _ | 39 thee | case |
| 39 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 seem | obl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 string | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 string | det |
| 42 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 string | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 bow | punct |
| 44 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seem | obl |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 does | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Marten | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | Marten | the bottom of the sea | with many shells on sea; below property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Marten | fear | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | the land | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not seem in a quote | present | it | to thee; like a bow string | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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