Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 92
It is said she turned to a toad Which bears to this day on its back A hump, or the piece of wood Which was carried away from the tree.
Who acts: back · What happens: say, turn, carry away · To what, where: tree, hump, piece · 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 (back), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 turned | advcl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 toad | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 toad | det |
| 8 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 bears | det |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 toad | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hump | det |
| 18 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 piece | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 piece | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 piece | det |
| 22 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 piece | nmod |
| 25 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 carried | aux:pass |
| 27 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 piece | parataxis |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 carried | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carried | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | back | a hump | day | to a toad which bears result; the piece of wood parataxis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to toad=Result | ||
| 3 | carry away | past · passive | the piece of wood | the tree | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from tree=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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