Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 5
The fierce Abenakis Came stealthily and still And landed on the isle Where lay the Iroquois.
Who acts: fierce Abenakis · What happens: come, land, lie · To what, where: isle, Iroquois
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 (fierce Abenakis), 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 | 3 Abenakis | det |
| 2 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Abenakis | amod |
| 3 | Abenakis | Abenakis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Came | nsubj |
| 4 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 4 Came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 still | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stealthily | conj |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 landed | cc |
| 9 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Came | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 isle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 isle | det |
| 12 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 landed | obl |
| 13 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 isle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Iroquois | det |
| 16 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fierce Abenakis | still | stealthily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | land | past | the fierce Abenakis not said here | the isle | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on isle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the Iroquois | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location iroquois=Theme |
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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