Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 115
This was a she-bear, shaggy, great and strong as oxen twain, She seized the lad and bore him off.]
Who acts: This, she bear · What happens: be, seize, bear off · To what, where: she bear, lad
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 (This, she bear), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bear | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bear | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 she | punct |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shaggy | punct |
| 8 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bear | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 great | punct |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shaggy | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strong | cc |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shaggy | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 twain | case |
| 14 | oxen | oxen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 twain | nummod |
| 15 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strong | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 17 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | nsubj |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lad | det |
| 20 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bore | cc |
| 22 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bore | obj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 bore | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a she bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | a she bear | the lad | BEAR nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | |||
| 3 | bear off | past | a she bear not said here | lad | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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