Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 27
And so The Master paddled; ere long The canoe passed o’er a whale.
Who acts: Master, canoe · What happens: paddle, pass · To what, where: whale
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 (Master, canoe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 paddled | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 paddled | advmod |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Master | det |
| 4 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paddled | nsubj |
| 5 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 7 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 passed | advmod |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 canoe | det |
| 10 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paddled | parataxis |
| 12 | o’er | o'er | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 whale | dep |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 whale | det |
| 14 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | past | the Master | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | the canoe | a whale | long property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whale=Trajectory |
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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