Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 66
He turned him to the North, It was long ere he came to the end; There on a moss-grown rock He found a great White Bird, The Eagle of the Wind.
Who acts: WUCHOʿSEN, North · What happens: turn, be, come, grow, find · To what, where: KULÓSKAP, long ere, great White Bird, grown rock
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 (WUCHOʿSEN, North), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 North | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 North | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ere | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ere | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ere | cop |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ere | amod |
| 11 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 North | appos |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ere | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 18 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 found | expl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 rock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rock | det |
| 21 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grown | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 moss | punct |
| 23 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 rock | amod |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obl |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Bird | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Bird | amod |
| 29 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Bird | amod |
| 30 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Eagle | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Eagle | det |
| 33 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bird | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Wind | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Wind | det |
| 36 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Eagle | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | WUCHOʿSEN | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | to the North result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Theme to north=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | past | North | long ere | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | WUCHOʿSEN | long ere not said here | to the end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ere=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | moss compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | past | WUCHOʿSEN | a great White Bird and the Eagle of the Wind | a grown rock; there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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