Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 111
But he knew that she was evil, So he fled away from her wooing, And the wild-cat witch pursued him.
Who acts: Master, Kulóskap, cat witch · What happens: know, be, flee, pursue, woo · To what, where: Master
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, Kulóskap, cat witch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 knew | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 evil | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 evil | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 evil | cop |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fled | punct |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fled | nsubj |
| 11 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 fled | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 wooing | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wooing | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wooing | wooing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pursued | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pursued | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cat | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wild | punct |
| 21 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 witch | compound |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pursued | nsubj |
| 23 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fled | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pursued | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Master | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Kulóskap | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | Master | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pursue | past | the cat witch | Master | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | woo | Kulóskap | nom wooing «communication transitive»: poss=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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