Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 30
In horror, back the hunter made his way And told the Indians what his eyes had seen.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: make, tell, see · To what, where: way, horror, Indians, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunter), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 horror | case |
| 2 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 horror | punct |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indians | det |
| 13 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seen | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Indians | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the hunter | hunter's way | horror | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the hunter not said here | the Indians | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent indian=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | hunter's eyes | the Indians obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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