Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 122
When they arrived, the furious bear rushed forth in anger dire But met her death by magic shot, and thus the boy was saved; He ran away, but soon was caught and to his kind restored, But during many years that lad was wild as any bear.
Who acts: arts, furious bear, boy, kind, lad, BEAR · What happens: arrive, rush, dire, meet, save, run away · To what, where: furious bear, anger, death, boy
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 (arts, furious bear, boy, kind), 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 | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dire | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bear | amod |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dire | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bear | acl |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 rushed | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 anger | case |
| 11 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 12 | dire | dire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dire | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 shot | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shot | amod |
| 19 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saved | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saved | cc |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 saved | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 saved | aux:pass |
| 26 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 dire | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 28 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dire | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 ran | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 caught | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 caught | cc |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 caught | advmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 caught | aux:pass |
| 35 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 restored | cc |
| 37 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 40 restored | mark |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 kind | nmod:poss |
| 39 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 restored | nsubj |
| 40 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 caught | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 wild | punct |
| 42 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 wild | cc |
| 43 | during | during | ADP | _ | 45 years | case |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 years | amod |
| 45 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 wild | obl |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 lad | det |
| 47 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 wild | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 wild | cop |
| 49 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dire | conj |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 52 bear | case |
| 51 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 bear | det |
| 52 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 wild | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | arts = art | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rush | participle | the furious bear not said here | anger | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anger=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | dire | past | the furious bear | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | past | the furious bear not said here | BEAR's death | by magic shot | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | save | past · passive | the boy | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run away | past | boy | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch | past · passive | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 8 | restore | past | boy's kind | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | past | that lad | year | as any bear; wild property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | die | BEAR | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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