Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 120
When spring-time came, the wizard of the little Indian town Took twenty men and started off to seek the long-lost lad.
Who acts: spring time, wizard · What happens: come, take, start off, seek, lose · To what, where: twenty men, long lost 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 (spring time, wizard), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 spring | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Took | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wizard | det |
| 8 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Took | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 12 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 town | amod |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wizard | nmod |
| 14 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Took | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 started | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seek | mark |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 started | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lad | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lad | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 lad | amod |
| 26 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seek | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | spring time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the wizard of the little Indian town | twenty men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | ||||
| 3 | start off | past | the wizard of the little Indian town not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the wizard of the little Indian town not said here | the long lost lad | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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