Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 121
Up rose Nipon Unto the North Wending her way, When she heard a voice, The voice of the Rain (Though she could not see her), Kʾmēwun, a-wailing: “Bide, my daughter!
Who acts: North · What happens: rise, wend, hear, not see, bide · To what, where: Nipon, way, voice, daughter
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 rose | advmod |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obj |
| 4 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 7 Wending | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 North | det |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wending | nsubj |
| 7 | Wending | wend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rose | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Wending | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 11 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 voice | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Rain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Rain | det |
| 21 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nmod |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 23 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 see | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 see | advmod |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 heard | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 see | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Kʾmēwun | punct |
| 31 | Kʾmēwun | Kʾmēwun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wailing | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 wailing | det |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 a | punct |
| 35 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Kʾmēwun | appos |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bide | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bide | punct |
| 38 | Bide | bide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 daughter | punct |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Bide | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Nipon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nipon=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wend | gerund | the North | North's way | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | North | a voice and the voice of the Rain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | North | NIPON | Kʾmēwun obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | bide in a quote | infinitive | my daughter | 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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