Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 121

All in the early time In an inland village Many Indians lived, Of two of them I’ll tell: One was a handsome man, Young, brave, a great hunter; The other, a beautiful girl.

Who acts: Many Indians, I, One · What happens: live, tell, be · To what, where: handsome man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Indians, I, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 Indians	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
6	In	in	ADP	_	9 village	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 village	det
8	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 village	amod
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
10	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Indians	amod
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 two	punct
14	Of	of	ADP	_	15 two	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 lived	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 two	nmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 two	acl:relcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
22	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 man	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Young	punct
28	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brave	punct
30	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Young	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hunter	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hunter	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hunter	amod
34	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 other	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 girl	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 girl	det
40	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 girl	amod
41	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	parataxis
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	Many Indians		of two of village	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	future	I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	One	a handsome man and a great hunter	a great hunter conj; a beautiful girl parataxis	tree rules
4	be		One not said here			tree rules

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 15, sentence 121

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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 121