Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 7
But as they had left him of old, He left them in turn and departed.
Who acts: rabbits, Master · What happens: leave, depart · To what, where: Master, rabbits, turn
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 (rabbits, Master), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 left | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | iobj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 old | case |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 turn | case |
| 14 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 departed | cc |
| 16 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | rabbits = rabbit | Master | of old | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme he=Source of old=Destination | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Master | rabbits = rabbit | turn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in turn=Location | |||
| 3 | depart | past | Master not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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