Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 131
She looked afar No smoke was rising From Nipon’s wigwam: “She has not returned,” Said the Rain-mother, So in her fear She went to the wigwam.
Who acts: NIPON, smoke, Rain mother · What happens: look, rise, not return, say, go, fear · To what, where: wigwam, fear · Speech: someone speaks here
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, smoke, Rain mother), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rising | amod |
| 4 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rising | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rising | aux |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | From | from | ADP | _ | 11 wigwam | case |
| 9 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Nipon | case |
| 11 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rising | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 returned | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 returned | advmod |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 20 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mother | det |
| 22 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mother | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rain | punct |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Said | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 26 | So | so | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fear | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fear | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 30 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 wigwam | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wigwam | det |
| 34 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | NIPON | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rise | past · progressive | no smoke | Nipon's wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wigwam=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not return in a quote | present · perfect | NIPON | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Rain mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | NIPON | NIPON's fear | to the wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | fear | NIPON | nom fear «feeling transitive»: 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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