Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 162
These wizards then withdrew Into a thicket’s shade, Whence suddenly emerged In beaver’s guise the one, In muskrat form his friend.
Who acts: wizards, thicket · What happens: withdraw, emerge, shade · To what, where: shade, one, guise
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 (wizards, thicket), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 wizards | det |
| 2 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 withdrew | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 withdrew | advmod |
| 4 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 9 shade | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thicket | det |
| 7 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shade | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 thicket | case |
| 9 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 withdrew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 emerged | punct |
| 11 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 emerged | advmod |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 emerged | advmod |
| 13 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 withdrew | conj |
| 14 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 guise | case |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guise | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 beaver | case |
| 17 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emerged | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emerged | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 muskrat | punct |
| 21 | In | in | ADP | _ | 22 muskrat | case |
| 22 | muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emerged | obl |
| 23 | form | from | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 muskrat | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | this wizards | a thicket's shade | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into shade=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | emerge | participle | this wizards not said here | the one | beaver's guise | in muskrat from wizard's friend; suddenly, whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||
| 3 | shade | a thicket | nom shade «state transitive»: 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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