Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 48
The snow in rivers ran Bearing away the leaves Left from the Fall before; The fairies all came out And then Kulóskap turned Again unto the South, Leaving his captive there; Summer was in the land.
Who acts: snow, fairies, Kulóskap, Summer · What happens: run, bear away, leave, come out, turn, be · To what, where: leaves, Fall, captive, land
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 (snow, fairies, Kulóskap, Summer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snow | det |
| 2 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 rivers | case |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snow | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ran | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 Bearing | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Bearing | obj |
| 10 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 leaves | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Fall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fall | det |
| 13 | Fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Left | obl |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 Fall | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fairies | det |
| 17 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 came | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 turned | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 turned | advmod |
| 23 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 25 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 24 turned | advmod |
| 26 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 South | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 South | det |
| 28 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Leaving | punct |
| 30 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 turned | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 captive | nmod:poss |
| 32 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Leaving | obj |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 Leaving | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 land | punct |
| 35 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 land | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 land | cop |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 land | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 land | det |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the snow in rivers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear away | gerund | the snow in rivers not said here | the leaves | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | the leaves not said here | the Fall | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | the fairies | all, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | Kulóskap | then; again | unto the South | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | leave | gerund | Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap's captive | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | past | Summer | the land | 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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