Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 55
Then at night they camped, and expected The chief who w’ould come to them, And then the evil Pitcher Ruled them as Sagamore.
Who acts: Cats, chief, evil Pitcher · What happens: camp, expect, come, rule · To what, where: Cats
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 (Cats, chief, evil Pitcher), 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 | 5 camped | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camped | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 camped | nsubj |
| 5 | camped | camp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 expected | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 expected | cc |
| 8 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 camped | advcl |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | w’ould | w'ould | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 expected | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ruled | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Ruled | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 Ruled | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Pitcher | det |
| 20 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Pitcher | amod |
| 21 | Pitcher | Pitcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ruled | nsubj |
| 22 | Ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 camped | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Ruled | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 Sagamore | case |
| 25 | Sagamore | Sagamore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ruled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 camped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | past | Cats = cat | then; night | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expect | past | Cats = cat not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | the chief | Cats = cat | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | rule | past | the evil Pitcher | Cats = cat | then | as Sagamore | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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