Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 114
When the old folk returned to camp they sought the boy in vain.
Who acts: old folk · What happens: return, seek · To what, where: old folk, boy, vain
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 (old folk), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 sought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 folk | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 folk | amod |
| 4 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 folk | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sought | nsubj |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 vain | case |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sought | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the old folk not said here | to camp result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | the old folk | the boy | vain | creatures = creature nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in vain=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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