Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 37
He caught fair Summer up, And, by a crafty trick, He kept her as his own; For, as he fled away, And as the elves pursued, He let behind him trail A long and slender cord Cut from a moose-hide.
Who acts: many, elves · What happens: catch up, keep, flee away, pursue, let, trail · To what, where: fair Summer, queen, long cord, moose hide
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 (many, elves), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Summer | amod |
| 4 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 caught | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 And | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 trick | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trick | det |
| 11 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trick | amod |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trick | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | nsubj |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 own | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 own | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kept | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fled | punct |
| 21 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 fled | mark |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fled | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 fled | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fled | nsubj |
| 25 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 fled | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 let | cc |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 pursued | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 elves | det |
| 31 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pursued | nsubj |
| 32 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 let | advcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pursued | punct |
| 34 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 let | nsubj |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 fled | conj |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obl |
| 38 | trail | trail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 39 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cord | det |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 cord | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 slender | cc |
| 42 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 long | conj |
| 43 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 trail | obj |
| 44 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 cord | acl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 hide | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 hide | det |
| 47 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 hide | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 moose | punct |
| 49 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Cut | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | many | fair Summer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | many | queen | by a crafty trick; as many's own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by trick=Location | |||
| 3 | flee away | past | many | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pursue | past | the elves | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | let | past | many | behind Homeward | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | trail | infinitive | many not said here | a long cord | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cut | participle | a long cord not said here | a moose hide | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hide=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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