Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 71
As Kulóskap peered from a thicket, Smiling to see the boy, The Sable cried: “Oh, my brother Is coming to us at last!”
Who acts: Kulóskap, Sable, brother · What happens: peer, smile, see, cry, come · To what, where: boy, us, last · 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 (Kulóskap, Sable, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 peered | mark |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 peered | nsubj |
| 3 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | advcl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 thicket | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thicket | det |
| 6 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Smiling | punct |
| 8 | Smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 peered | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Smiling | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 peered | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sable | det |
| 15 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 19 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 24 coming | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 23 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 coming | aux |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 cried | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 coming | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coming | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | past | Kulóskap | from a thicket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from thicket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Kulóskap not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | the boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the Sable | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · progressive | my brother | us | last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=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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