Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 115
The water grew so shoal That soon she heard the song Of many Clams, who lay Deep shelled below the sand.
Who acts: water, That, shoal, many Clams · What happens: grow, shoal, hear, lie, shell, sing · To what, where: song, sand
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 (water, That, shoal, many Clams), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 heard | advmod |
| 5 | shoal | shoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 shoal | nsubj |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Clams | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Clams | amod |
| 14 | Clams | clam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 song | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Clams | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Deep | deep | ADV | _ | 19 shelled | advmod |
| 19 | shelled | shell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lay | xcomp |
| 20 | below | below | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sand | det |
| 22 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shelled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shoal | That | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past | shoal | the song of many Clams | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | lie | past | many Clams | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shell | participle | many Clams not said here | the sand | deep property | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | sing | many Clams | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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