Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 38
And then the injured wizard went his way Unto his barken shanty in the woods.
Who acts: injured wizard · What happens: go, barken · To what, where: way, woods
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 (injured wizard), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wizard | det |
| 4 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wizard | amod |
| 5 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obj |
| 9 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 12 shanty | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shanty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | barken | barken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shanty | amod |
| 12 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the injured wizard | nephew's way | the woods | then | unto nephew's barken shanty | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |
| 2 | barken | participle | 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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