Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 129
He gave no heed to her words, He cared not for her, nor feared her, So he went away with his brother, And for many days together They hunted in the North, Hunted the deer and moose; The girl was all forgotten.
Who acts: spirit, twas, perchance · What happens: give, not care, fear, go away, hunt, forget · To what, where: heed, words, perchance, North, deer, girl
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 (spirit, twas, perchance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 heed | det |
| 4 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cared | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cared | nsubj |
| 10 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 cared | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feared | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 feared | cc |
| 16 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 feared | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | So | so | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hunted | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hunted | cc |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 days | case |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 days | amod |
| 30 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hunted | obl |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 hunted | advmod |
| 32 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hunted | nsubj |
| 33 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 North | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 North | det |
| 36 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 hunted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Hunted | punct |
| 38 | Hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 hunted | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 deer | det |
| 40 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Hunted | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 moose | cc |
| 42 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 deer | conj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 forgotten | punct |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 girl | det |
| 45 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 47 | all | all | ADV | _ | 48 forgotten | advmod |
| 48 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | spirit | no heed | perchance's words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to word=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not care | past | spirit | for perchance | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | spirit not said here | perchance | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go away | past | spirit | with spirit's brother; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | hunt | past | twas = twa | the North | day | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in north=Location | ||
| 6 | hunt | past | twas = twa not said here | the deer and moose | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 7 | forget | past · passive | the girl | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | word | perchance | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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