Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 23
Now when they came to the beach There were many mighty rocks Lying scattered here and there.
Who acts: whales, many mighty rocks · What happens: come, be, lie, scatter · To what, where: beach
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 (whales, many mighty rocks), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 beach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beach | det |
| 7 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rocks | amod |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rocks | amod |
| 12 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 13 | Lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 rocks | acl |
| 14 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Lying | xcomp |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 scattered | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 here | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | whales = whale | the beach | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | many mighty rocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | many mighty rocks not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | scatter | participle | many mighty rocks not said here | here; there | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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