Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 119
The whale like lightning flew Until she found herself High up upon the shore, Then she, too, cried in woe: “Alas, alas!
Who acts: whale, Nenagimk · What happens: fly, find, cry · To what, where: Alas, Nenagimk, woe
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 (whale, Nenagimk), 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 whale | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 lightning | case |
| 4 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whale | nmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | advcl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 found | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shore | det |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 16 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 cried | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cried | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 she | punct |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 cried | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 too | punct |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 flew | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 woe | case |
| 23 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alas | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Alas | punct |
| 26 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 alas | punct |
| 28 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Alas | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the whale like lightning | Alas and alas | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Nenagimk | Nenagimk | upon the shore | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | participle · passive | Nenagimk | woe | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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