Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 51
And while Kulóskap was seeking For eggs along the seaside She stole away in silence, Away in the _agwedʾn_ That is, in the birch-canoe.
Who acts: Kulóskap, death, That · What happens: seek, steal away, be · To what, where: seaside, silence, birch canoe
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 (Kulóskap, death, That), 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 seeking | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 seeking | mark |
| 3 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seeking | aux |
| 5 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 eggs | case |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seeking | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 seaside | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seaside | det |
| 10 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | obl |
| 11 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stole | nsubj |
| 12 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seaside | acl:relcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 stole | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silence | case |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stole | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Away | punct |
| 17 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 5 seeking | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 agwedʾn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 agwedʾn | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 agwedʾn | punct |
| 21 | agwedʾn | agwedʾn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Away | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeking | punct |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 canoe | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 canoe | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 canoe | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 canoe | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 canoe | det |
| 28 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 canoe | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 birch | punct |
| 30 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeking | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seeking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · progressive | Kulóskap | the seaside | for eggs; away property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme along seaside=Location | |||
| 2 | steal away | past | death | the seaside not said here | silence | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seaside=Theme | ||
| 3 | is | present | That | the birch canoe | tree rules |
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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