Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 70
She bore him on her back, The child’s back lay against her, So that, while she looked forward, He could only look behind.
Who acts: Marten, back, Brother · What happens: bear, lie, look · To what, where: Brother, back
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 (Marten, back, Brother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bore | nsubj |
| 2 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bore | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 child | case |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bore | parataxis |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 look | punct |
| 16 | So | so | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 looked | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | advcl |
| 22 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 look | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 look | aux |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lay | conj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | Marten | Brother | Marten's back | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the child's back | against Marten | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against she=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Marten | forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | look | could | Brother | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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