Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 84
In days of yore some Indians were camping in the woods And one of them when near a stream heard a strange sound o’erhead.
Who acts: Indians, one · What happens: camp, hear · To what, where: woods, strange sound o’erhead
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 (Indians, one), 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 days | case |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 camping | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 yore | case |
| 4 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 Indians | det |
| 6 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 camping | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 camping | aux |
| 8 | camping | camp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 camping | obl |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 heard | advmod |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 camping | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 o’erhead | det |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 o’erhead | amod |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 o’erhead | compound |
| 24 | o’erhead | o'erhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 camping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | camp | past · progressive | some Indians | the woods | day | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | one of Indians | a strange sound o’erhead | a stream nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer o'erhead=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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