Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 50
Then both in a canoe Went far away, and still farther, Till they came to a lonely island.
Who acts: both, people · What happens: go, come · To what, where: lonely island
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 (both, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Went | advmod |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Went | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 both | nmod |
| 6 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 Went | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 farther | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 farther | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 farther | advmod |
| 12 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 Went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 island | amod |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | both in a canoe | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | people | a lonely island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_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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