Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 67
And ’tis said that, when the Master Had left Acadia, The bird who most had loved him, The great white Snowy Owl Went far into the North, Into the deep dark forest, Where to this day his children Sing to the night “_Kūkuʿskūūs!
Who acts: tis, Master, Acadia, children · What happens: say, leave, love, go, sing · To what, where: bird, North, Kūkuʿskūūs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tis, Master, Acadia, children), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 3 tis | punct |
| 3 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 left | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Master | det |
| 9 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 Acadia | advcl |
| 12 | Acadia | Acadia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Went | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Acadia | appos |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 loved | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loved | aux |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bird | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Went | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Owl | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Owl | amod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Owl | amod |
| 25 | Snowy | Snowy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Owl | compound |
| 26 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Went | nsubj |
| 27 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 Went | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 North | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 North | det |
| 31 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 forest | punct |
| 33 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 37 forest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 forest | det |
| 35 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 forest | amod |
| 36 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 forest | amod |
| 37 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Went | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Sing | punct |
| 39 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 Sing | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 day | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 day | det |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Sing | obl |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 children | nmod:poss |
| 44 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Sing | nsubj |
| 45 | Sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 forest | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 night | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 night | det |
| 48 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Sing | obl |
| 49 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Kūkuʿskūūs | punct |
| 50 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 51 Kūkuʿskūūs | punct |
| 51 | Kūkuʿskūūs | Kūkuʿskūūs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Sing | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | tis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | the Master | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love | past · perfect · passive | the bird | Acadia obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Acadia | the North | into the deep dark forest; the great white Snowy Owl nsubj; far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into north=Initial_Location into forest=Destination | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | present | Owl's children | Kūkuʿskūūs | day; night | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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