Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 69

Two men were hunting on an inland lake When suddenly they heard a fearful whoop As of a man in agony, who ran Adown the lake along the farther shore.

Who acts: Two men, men, agony · What happens: hunt, hear, run · To what, where: inland lake, fearful whoop, agony, lake, Adown

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 (Two men, men, agony), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 men	nummod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	aux
4	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 lake	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
7	inland	inland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunting	obl
9	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 heard	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunting	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 whoop	det
14	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 whoop	amod
15	whoop	whoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 man	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 As	fixed
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 agony	case
21	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ran	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ran	nsubj
24	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 agony	acl:relcl
25	Adown	Adown	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lake	det
27	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obj
28	along	along	ADP	_	31 shore	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shore	det
30	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 shore	amod
31	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ran	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	Two men			a inland lake		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on lake=Location
2	hear	past	men = man	a fearful whoop		agony	as a man; suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whoop=Stimulus
3	run	past	agony	the lake	Adown		along the farther shore	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent adown=Beneficiary lake=Product

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 69