Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 19
She bade him take her out in his canoe; So forth they sailed over a summer sea With a sweet breeze.
Who acts: Kulóskap, Witches · What happens: bade, take out, sail · To what, where: Lord, Kulóskap, canoe, summer sea
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 (Kulóskap, Witches), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | 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 bade | obj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 canoe | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 11 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 forth | advmod |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 sailed | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailed | nsubj |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sea | compound |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 19 | With | with | ADP | _ | 22 breeze | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 breeze | det |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 breeze | amod |
| 22 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Kulóskap | Lord | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap | Lord's canoe | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | sail | past | Witches = witch | a summer sea | with a sweet breeze; forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=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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