Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 99
The Indian then ran away and saw no more strange sights, But ever on his hunts abroad he killed sufficient food, For all the forest creatures had no fear of him who once Had had the serpent’s eye-rings from the demon of the air.
Who acts: Indian, E’en, forest creatures, fear · What happens: run away, see, kill, have, fear · To what, where: strange sights, sufficient food, hunts, fear, eye rings, E’en
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 (Indian, E’en, forest creatures, fear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indian | det |
| 2 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 strange | advmod |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sights | amod |
| 11 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 hunts | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hunts | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hunts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 killed | obl |
| 18 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 20 killed | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 21 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 food | amod |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 killed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 24 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 creatures | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 creatures | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 creatures | compound |
| 28 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | conj |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 fear | det |
| 31 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fear | nmod |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 had | nsubj |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 37 had | advmod |
| 36 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fear | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 serpent | det |
| 39 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 serpent | case |
| 41 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rings | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 eye | punct |
| 43 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 had | obj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 demon | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 demon | det |
| 46 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 air | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 air | det |
| 49 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 demon | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | the Indian | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the Indian not said here | strange sights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | E’en = e'en | sufficient food | E’en's hunts | abroad property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||
| 4 | have | past | all forest creatures | no fear of E’en | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | no fear of E’en | the serpent's eye rings | from the demon of the air; Had nsubj; once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | |||
| 6 | fear | E’en = e'en | nom fear «feeling 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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