Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 166
The beaver seized his friend And drew him ’neath the stream And held him till he drowned, In order that his pains And struggle for his life Should not alarm the foe.
Who acts: beaver, pains · What happens: seize, draw, hold, drown, not alarm, pain · To what, where: friend, beaver, order
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 (beaver, pains), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beaver | det |
| 2 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drew | obj |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 drew | punct |
| 10 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 12 stream | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stream | det |
| 12 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obl |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 drowned | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drowned | nsubj |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 order | punct |
| 20 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 order | case |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drowned | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 alarm | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pains | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 alarm | nsubj |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 struggle | cc |
| 26 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pains | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struggle | nmod |
| 30 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 alarm | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 alarm | advmod |
| 32 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 order | nmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 foe | det |
| 34 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 alarm | appos |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the beaver | beaver's friend | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the beaver not said here | beaver | neath the stream | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | past | the beaver not said here | beaver | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drown | past | beaver | order | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not alarm | should | beaver's pains and struggle for beaver's life | the foe appos | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pain | beaver | nom pain «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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