Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 73
And the three brothers ran Before it as it chased them As rabbits are chased by a lynx; They were entirely beaten.
Who acts: three brothers, knot, lynx · What happens: run, chase, beat · To what, where: knot, brothers, rabbits
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 (three brothers, knot, lynx), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 chased | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | nsubj |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chased | obj |
| 12 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 chased | mark |
| 13 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chased | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chased | aux:pass |
| 15 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 chased | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 lynx | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lynx | det |
| 18 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chased | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 beaten | punct |
| 20 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beaten | aux:pass |
| 22 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 23 beaten | advmod |
| 23 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the three brothers | knot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | chase | past | knot | brothers = brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chase | present · passive | a lynx | rabbits | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beat | past · passive | rabbits = rabbit | entirely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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