Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 123
She heard nothing Of all the warning, She could not stay For a spell was on her; Ever onward She went to the North.
Who acts: NIPON, spell · What happens: hear, not stay, be, go · To what, where: nothing, North
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 (NIPON, spell), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 heard | obj |
| 4 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 warning | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 warning | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warning | det |
| 7 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 9 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 stay | advmod |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 heard | conj |
| 13 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 her | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spell | det |
| 15 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 her | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 her | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stay | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 20 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 onward | advmod |
| 21 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 22 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 North | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 North | det |
| 26 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | NIPON | nothing of all warning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not stay | could | NIPON | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a spell | on North | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | NIPON | the North | ever | onward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to north=Initial_Location |
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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