Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 31

Then, all together left the happy town And struggling through the brush and tangled wood Went straightway to that fearsome pool to save The damsels from a fate too dread to tell.

Who acts: wood · What happens: leave, struggle, tangle, go, save, tell · To what, where: happy town, brush, straightway, damsels, fate · 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 (wood), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 left	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 together	advmod
4	together	together	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 town	amod
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
9	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 struggling	cc
10	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 town	conj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 brush	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brush	det
13	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struggling	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tangled	cc
15	tangled	tangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Went	nsubj
17	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tangled	ccomp
18	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Went	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 pool	case
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 pool	det
21	fearsome	fearsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pool	amod
22	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Went	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 save	mark
24	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Went	advcl
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 damsels	det
26	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 save	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 fate	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fate	det
29	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 save	obl
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 dread	advmod
31	dread	dread	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fate	amod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 tell	mark
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 dread	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		the happy town		then	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
2	struggle	gerund			the brush			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tangle	past						tree rules
4	go	past	wood	straightway			to that fearsome pool	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location straightway=Theme
5	save	to-infinitive	wood not said here	the damsels	a fate			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent damsel=Theme from fate=Source
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	wood not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 31

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 31