Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 15
He found upon the bank A lonely deserted wigwam, Therein he carried the dead, And, laying them down, he said: “_Nemchaase!
Who acts: Master · What happens: find, desert, carry, lay down, say · To what, where: lonely deserted wigwam, dead, songs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 bank | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wigwam | det |
| 7 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wigwam | amod |
| 8 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wigwam | amod |
| 9 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 11 | Therein | therein | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 And | punct |
| 19 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laying | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 laying | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laying | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nemchaase | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nemchaase | punct |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Nemchaase | punct |
| 28 | Nemchaase | Nemchaase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Master | a lonely deserted wigwam | upon the bank | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Topic | |||
| 2 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | carry | past | Master | the dead | therein property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme | |||
| 4 | lay down | gerund | Master not said here | songs = song | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Master | Nemchaase parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/15/