Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 49
One day when all the people Were packing to travel away To another place for summer, Pûjinskwes asked the chief To go with him (or _her_, As you may choose to take it), Adown to the water side To seek for the eggs of the gull.
Who acts: people, Pûjinskwes, chief, you · What happens: pack, travel away, ask, go, choose, take · To what, where: place, chief, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Pûjinskwes, chief, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 packing | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 people | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 packing | nsubj |
| 7 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 packing | aux |
| 8 | packing | pack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 packing | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 travel | advmod |
| 12 | To | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 summer | case |
| 16 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travel | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 18 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chief | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obj |
| 22 | To | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 her | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 her | cc |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 her | punct |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 go | obl |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 her | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 choose | punct |
| 32 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 choose | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 choose | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 choose | aux |
| 35 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 choose | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 37 take | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Adown | punct |
| 41 | Adown | Adown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 side | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 side | det |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 side | compound |
| 45 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obl |
| 46 | To | to | PART | _ | 47 seek | mark |
| 47 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 eggs | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 eggs | det |
| 50 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 seek | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 gull | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 gull | det |
| 53 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 eggs | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past · progressive | all people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | travel away | to-infinitive | all people not said here | another place | summer | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Pûjinskwes | the chief | day | to the water side; Adown obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | death | with Pûjinskwes | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | choose | may | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | you not said here | chief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | for the eggs of the gull | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for egg=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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