Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 89
The old man then lay in the basket And to him came a vision of dread; He stretched forth his hand to his nephew, A gesture to draw his attention, And then told the youth of his vision.
Who acts: old man, vision, uncle · What happens: lie, come, stretch, draw, tell, attend · To what, where: basket, uncle, hand, attention, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, vision, uncle), 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 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lay | advmod |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 basket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 vision | det |
| 14 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dread | case |
| 16 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vision | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stretched | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stretched | nsubj |
| 19 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | advcl |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 stretched | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hand | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nephew | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stretched | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gesture | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 gesture | det |
| 28 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nephew | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 draw | mark |
| 30 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 attention | nmod:poss |
| 32 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 draw | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 told | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 told | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 told | advmod |
| 36 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stretched | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 youth | det |
| 38 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 told | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 vision | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 vision | nmod:poss |
| 41 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 youth | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the old man | the basket | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | a vision of dread | uncle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | uncle | uncle's hand | to uncle's nephew and a gesture result; forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to nephew=Result | |||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | uncle not said here | uncle's attention | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | uncle not said here | the youth of uncle's vision | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient | |||
| 6 | attend | uncle | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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