Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 65
The place where they were to play Was the sandy stony plain Which lies on the bend of the river.
Who acts: brothers, sandy stony plain · What happens: play, lie · To what, where: bend, place
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 (brothers, sandy stony plain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 play | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 play | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Was | was | ADP | _ | 12 plain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plain | det |
| 10 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plain | amod |
| 11 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plain | amod |
| 12 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 13 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 plain | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bend | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bend | det |
| 17 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bend | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | brothers = brother | was the sandy stony plain | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the sandy stony plain | the bend of the river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bend=Location |
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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