Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 25
Long years ago, two lovely Indian girls Were wont to leave their people every week, Embarking secretly in birch canoe.
Who acts: two lovely Indian girls · What happens: be, leave, embark · To what, where: people, birch canoe
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 (two lovely Indian girls), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 wont | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 girls | nummod |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wont | nsubj |
| 9 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wont | cop |
| 10 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 leave | mark |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wont | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 week | det |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Embarking | punct |
| 18 | Embarking | embark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 leave | advcl |
| 19 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 18 Embarking | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 canoe | case |
| 21 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 canoe | compound |
| 22 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Embarking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wont | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | two lovely Indian girls | ago, wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | two lovely Indian girls not said here | girls's people | week | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 3 | embark | gerund | two lovely Indian girls not said here | birch canoe | secretly property | tree rules |
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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