Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
One day a man was hunting far from human sights and sounds, Deep in the wildest forest glades, nor thought of magic wiles, When suddenly he heard a voice which said to him: “Depart, And come again to this same spot at earliest streak of dawn.”
Who acts: man, voice · What happens: hunt, hear, say, depart, come, think · To what, where: human sights, voice, man, earliest streak, magic wiles · 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 (man, voice), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunting | aux |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 hunting | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sights | case |
| 9 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sights | amod |
| 10 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hunting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sounds | cc |
| 12 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sights | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Deep | punct |
| 14 | Deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sights | amod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 glades | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glades | det |
| 17 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 glades | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glades | compound |
| 19 | glades | glade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Deep | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 thought | cc |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunting | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wiles | case |
| 24 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wiles | amod |
| 25 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thought | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 27 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 heard | advmod |
| 28 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 30 heard | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 voice | det |
| 32 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heard | obj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 voice | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
| 39 | Depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heard | ccomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 come | punct |
| 41 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 come | cc |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 Depart | conj |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 42 come | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 spot | case |
| 45 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 spot | det |
| 46 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 spot | amod |
| 47 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 come | obl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 streak | case |
| 49 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 50 streak | amod |
| 50 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 come | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 dawn | case |
| 52 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 streak | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | a man | human sights and sounds | day | thought of magic wiles conj; far property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | hear | past | man | a voice | suddenly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | depart in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | earliest streak of dawn | again | to this same spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | think | magic wiles | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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