Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 2
This news she spread abroad, Adding that trouble was coming, For the Master must have returned.
Who acts: news, trouble · What happens: spread, add, come, return · To what, where: Master
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 (news, trouble), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 4 spread | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Adding | punct |
| 7 | Adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spread | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 coming | mark |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 coming | aux |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Adding | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 13 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 returned | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Master | det |
| 15 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 returned | aux |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 coming | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | this news | abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | this news not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | trouble | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | must · perfect · passive | the Master | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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