Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 163
When they drew very near The island where the foe, The cruel Iroquois, Were feasting on a moose, The beaver and the rat Dived deep beneath the stream, Causing that sudden plash Which even to this day Makes many a hunter jump.
Who acts: gifts, foe, day · What happens: draw, feast, dive, cause, make · To what, where: island, sudden plash
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 (gifts, foe, day), 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 drew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Dived | advcl |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Dived | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 feasting | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foe | det |
| 10 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feasting | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Iroquois | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Iroquois | det |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Iroquois | amod |
| 14 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 foe | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Iroquois | punct |
| 16 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 feasting | aux |
| 17 | feasting | feast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 island | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 moose | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moose | det |
| 20 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feasting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beaver | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beaver | det |
| 23 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 moose | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rat | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rat | det |
| 26 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 moose | conj |
| 27 | Dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 27 Dived | advmod |
| 29 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 31 stream | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stream | det |
| 31 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Dived | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Causing | punct |
| 33 | Causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Dived | advcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 plash | mark |
| 35 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 plash | amod |
| 36 | plash | plash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Causing | obj |
| 37 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 Makes | obj |
| 38 | even | even | ADV | _ | 41 day | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 day | case |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 day | det |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Makes | nsubj |
| 42 | Makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 plash | acl:relcl |
| 43 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Makes | obj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 jump | det |
| 45 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 jump | compound |
| 46 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 many | nsubj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 Dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | gifts = gift | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feast | past · progressive | the foe | on a moose and the beaver and the rat | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on moose=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dive | past | the island | beneath the stream; deep property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near island=Location | ||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | sudden plash | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition plash=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | present | this day | sudden plash | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary many=Product |
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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