Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 75
Then the mother threw Nʾmokswes Like a stick down into the leaves, But the Master bade him rise And run to the camp with speed.
Who acts: mother, Master · What happens: throw, bade, rise, run · To what, where: Nʾmokswes, leaves, Brother
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 (mother, Master), 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 | 4 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Nʾmokswes | Nʾmokswes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 8 stick | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 threw | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 leaves | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bade | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 bade | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Master | det |
| 16 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bade | nsubj |
| 17 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bade | obj |
| 19 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bade | xcomp |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 run | cc |
| 21 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rise | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 camp | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 camp | det |
| 24 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 run | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 speed | case |
| 26 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 camp | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the mother | Nʾmokswes | then | into the leaves result; like a stick; down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer nʾmokswes=Theme into leaf=Result | ||
| 2 | bade | past | the Master | Brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | infinitive | the Master not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | the Master not said here | to the camp with speed result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to camp=Result |
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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