Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 72
Then all the Indians Could go in their canoes As freely as they chose For many days and months.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: go, choose · To what, where: canoes
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 (Indians), 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 | 6 go | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Indians | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 canoes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | As | as | ADV | _ | 11 freely | advmod |
| 11 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 chose | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chose | nsubj |
| 14 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | advcl |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chose | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 months | cc |
| 19 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 days | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | could | all Indians | Indians's canoes | then | freely property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | ||
| 2 | choose | past | Indians = indian | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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