Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
He came to a great lodge Wherein he found a giant, Truly a wondrous one The greatest of his race, For he was Winter.
Who acts: land · What happens: come, find, be, race · To what, where: great lodge, giant wondrous one
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 (land), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lodge | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lodge | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lodge | amod |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | Wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 found | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 greatest | det |
| 18 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 race | nmod:poss |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greatest | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Winter | punct |
| 23 | For | for | ADP | _ | 26 Winter | case |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 Winter | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Winter | cop |
| 26 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | land | a great lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | land | a giant wondrous one the greatest of land's race | wherein property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | land | for Winter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | race | land | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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