Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 109

Some Indians were camping with their children near a lake And one fair morning started off to hunt the wary moose, The children left alone in camp, as is the Indian way.

Who acts: Indians, one fair morning · What happens: camp, start off, hunt, leave, be · To what, where: lake, wary moose, children, camp

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, one fair morning), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Indians	det
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 camping	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 camping	aux
4	camping	camp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 camping	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 camping	obl
11	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 started	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 morning	nummod
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 started	nsubj
15	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lake	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 started	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hunt	mark
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 started	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moose	det
20	wary	wary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moose	amod
21	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 children	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moose	appos
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 children	acl
26	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 left	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 camp	case
28	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 left	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 camping	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	34 way	case
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 way	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
33	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 way	amod
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 camping	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 camping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	camp	past · progressive	some Indians		a lake	with Indians's children	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location
2	start off	past	one fair morning				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hunt	to-infinitive	one fair morning not said here	the wary moose			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moose=Theme
4	leave	participle		the children not said here		in camp result; alone property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in camp=Result
5	is	present				as the Indian way	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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 109