Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 44
Then as the day was fair They went into the woods To seek for game, yet found Full little.
Who acts: day, rocks · What happens: be, go, seek, find · To what, where: woods, Full little
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 (day, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 went | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fair | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advcl |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | To | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 game | case |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 19 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 little | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the day | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | rocks = rock | the woods | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | rocks = rock not said here | for game | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for game=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | rocks = rock not said here | Full little | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=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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