Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 15
Years after three Indian hunters Who had heard this wondrous story Sought by the lake for the wigwam.
Who acts: three Indian hunters · What happens: hear, seek · To what, where: wondrous story
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 (three Indian hunters), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunters | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 hunters | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hunters | nummod |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunters | amod |
| 5 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hunters | acl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 story | det |
| 10 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 12 | Sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 story | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sought | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wigwam | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wigwam | det |
| 18 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lake | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | three Indian hunters Years | this wondrous story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seek | participle | this wondrous story not said here | by the lake for the wigwam | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by lake=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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