Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 12
She sent them away with presents, With many silver bracelets, With many ear-rings and brooches And said: “Do not return Till the ice is here in winter.”
Who acts: wife · What happens: send away, say, not return, be · To what, where: furs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 sent | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 presents | case |
| 6 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bracelets | punct |
| 8 | With | with | ADP | _ | 11 bracelets | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bracelets | amod |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bracelets | compound |
| 11 | bracelets | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rings | punct |
| 13 | With | with | ADP | _ | 17 rings | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rings | amod |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rings | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ear | punct |
| 17 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bracelets | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brooches | cc |
| 19 | brooches | brooch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rings | conj |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 24 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 return | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 return | advmod |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 29 ice | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ice | det |
| 29 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 here | obl |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 here | cop |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 return | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 winter | case |
| 33 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 return | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | past | wife | furs = fur | with presents; with many silver bracelets with many ear rings and brooches; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not return in a quote | infinitive · do-support | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | till the ice | here property | 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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