Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 159
So all the Indian braves Embarked in their canoes, Went down one stream, then up Another, paddling soft, Avoiding any sound.
Who acts: Indian braves · What happens: embark, go down, paddle, avoid · To what, where: Indian braves, canoes, one stream, sound
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 (Indian braves), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 Went | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 braves | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 braves | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 braves | amod |
| 5 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Went | nsubj |
| 6 | Embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 braves | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 canoes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Embarked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 braves | punct |
| 11 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 Went | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 stream | nummod |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Another | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 Another | advmod |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 Another | case |
| 18 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 Went | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 paddling | punct |
| 20 | paddling | paddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Went | advcl |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 paddling | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Avoiding | punct |
| 23 | Avoiding | avoid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 paddling | conj |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 sound | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Avoiding | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | participle | all Indian braves not said here | braves's canoes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | all Indian braves | one stream | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | paddle | gerund | all Indian braves not said here | soft property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | avoid | gerund | all Indian braves not said here | any sound | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sound=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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