Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 10

Then, having made a canoe, The Master and his mother, Dame Bear, and Marten, his brother, Went forth on a mighty river Which was in its beginning Both broad and beautiful.

Who acts: Marten, mighty river · What happens: make, go, be · To what, where: canoe, mighty river, beginning

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marten, mighty river), 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 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 canoe	det
6	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Master	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Master	det
9	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 canoe	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Master	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Dame	punct
14	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Master	conj
15	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Dame	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Went	cc
18	Marten	Marten	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Went	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brother	punct
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Marten	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Marten	punct
23	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 Went	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 river	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 river	det
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 river	amod
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Went	obl
29	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 beginning	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 beginning	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 beginning	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beginning	nmod:poss
33	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 river	conj
34	Both	both	CCONJ	_	35 broad	cc:preconj
35	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beginning	amod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 beautiful	cc
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 broad	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · perfect		a canoe		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset canoe=Product
2	go	past	Marten		a mighty river and canoe's beginning		forth property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on river=Location
3	is	past	a mighty river and canoe's beginning			in canoe's beginning	canoe nmod:poss	tree rules

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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 10