Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 70
They went out in their barque and there they saw Him come right up to where their shanty lay.
Who acts: men, Adown, shanty · What happens: go out, see, come, lay · To what, where: barque, 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 (men, Adown, shanty), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 barque | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 barque | nmod:poss |
| 6 | barque | barque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 saw | expl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 19 lay | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 up | fixed |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | advmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shanty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | men = man | men's barque | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | men = man | Adown | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Adown not said here | right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | men's shanty | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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