Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 124
Then with a push of his bow Against her head, he sent The whale into the sea, Into the deep once more.
Who acts: Nʾgumi, bow · What happens: send, push · To what, where: whale, sea
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 (Nʾgumi, bow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sent | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 push | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 push | det |
| 4 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bow | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 push | nmod |
| 8 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bow | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 push | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whale | det |
| 15 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deep | punct |
| 20 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 22 deep | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 deep | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | parataxis |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 deep | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Nʾgumi | the whale | the sea | then | with a push of Nʾgumi's bow against grandchild's head; the deep parataxis | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme | |
| 2 | push | Nʾgumi's bow against grandchild's head | nom push «act 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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