Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 62
And when the feast was over, Kulóskap, the Lord of all living, Entered his great canoe And sailed away over the water, The shining waves of Minas; And they looked in silence at him Until they could see him no more.
Who acts: feast, Kulóskap, waves · What happens: be, enter, sail away, shine, look, see · To what, where: great canoe, water, lord, Minas
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 (feast, Kulóskap, waves), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Entered | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 over | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 over | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 over | cop |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 Entered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulóskap | punct |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Entered | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lord | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kulóskap | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 living | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 living | det |
| 14 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Lord | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kulóskap | punct |
| 16 | Entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 canoe | amod |
| 19 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Entered | obj |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sailed | cc |
| 21 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Entered | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 sailed | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sailed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 waves | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waves | det |
| 28 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 waves | amod |
| 29 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 water | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Minas | case |
| 31 | Minas | Minas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 waves | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 looked | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 looked | cc |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looked | nsubj |
| 35 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Entered | conj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 silence | case |
| 37 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looked | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 looked | obl |
| 40 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 43 see | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 looked | advcl |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 see | obj |
| 45 | no | no | ADV | _ | 46 more | advmod |
| 46 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 see | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the feast | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Kulóskap and the Lord of all living | lord's great canoe | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme canoe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sail away | past | Kulóskap and the Lord of all living not said here | the water the shining waves of Minas | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | look | past | waves = wave | at lord; in silence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | could | waves = wave | lord | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wave | Minas | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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