Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 124
For many days, For many moons, Still the sun shone, Still she saw The beautiful country Of mountains and rivers, Until one day Nipon noted That as she followed, The land went onward, And as she travelled, It travelled before her.
Who acts: Still sun, sun, one day, NIPON, land · What happens: shine, see, note, follow, go, travel · To what, where: beautiful country, That
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 (Still sun, sun, one day, NIPON), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shone | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moons | punct |
| 5 | For | for | ADP | _ | 7 moons | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moons | amod |
| 7 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 9 | Still | Still | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | compound |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shone | conj |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 country | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rivers | cc |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mountains | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 noted | punct |
| 25 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 noted | mark |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 day | nummod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 noted | nsubj |
| 28 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 day | appos |
| 29 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 30 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 noted | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 followed | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 followed | nsubj |
| 33 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 noted | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 land | det |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shone | conj |
| 38 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 travelled | punct |
| 40 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 travelled | cc |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 travelled | mark |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 travelled | nsubj |
| 43 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 travelled | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 travelled | punct |
| 45 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 travelled | nsubj |
| 46 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shone | conj |
| 47 | before | before | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 travelled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the Still sun | day | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sun | the beautiful country of mountains and rivers | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | note | past | one day | That | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | NIPON | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | the land | onward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | travel | past | NIPON | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | travel | past | land | before NIPON | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Trajectory |
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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