Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 21
“Let us go forth to sea In my canoe, and catch Some whales by torch light.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, go, catch · To what, where: us, canoe, whales
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 (you, us), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | In | in | ADP | _ | 10 canoe | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 catch | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 catch | cc |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 14 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 whales | det |
| 15 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 catch | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 17 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 light | compound |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catch | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | my canoe | to sea; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | catch in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | some whales | by torch light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=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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