Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 44
So at the morrow’s dawn he trod again the darksome glade; And once again he heard the voice command him in this wise: “Begone from here and seek the spot where yawns a precipice.
Who acts: Awestruck, voice · What happens: tread, hear, command, begone, seek, yawn · To what, where: darksome glade, Awestruck, wise, spot, precipice · 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 (Awestruck, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 trod | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morrow | det |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trod | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trod | nsubj |
| 8 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 trod | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 glade | det |
| 11 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 glade | amod |
| 12 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trod | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trod | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 command | nsubj |
| 21 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 command | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wise | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 wise | nsubj |
| 25 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 command | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Begone | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Begone | punct |
| 28 | Begone | begone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 heard | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 here | case |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 Begone | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 seek | cc |
| 32 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 Begone | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spot | det |
| 34 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seek | obj |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 yawns | advmod |
| 36 | yawns | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 spot | acl:relcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 precipice | det |
| 38 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 yawns | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | past | Awestruck | the darksome glade | again; dawn | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location glade=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Awestruck | again | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | command | present | the voice | Awestruck | wise this | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wise=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | begone in a quote | participle | Awestruck not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | infinitive | Awestruck not said here | the spot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 6 | yawn in a quote | present | a precipice | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precipice=Theme |
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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