Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 139
The wind warriors, The unseen by man, Flew like lightning On their long journey.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: journey · To what, where: wind warriors
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 (warriors), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | compound |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 unseen | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 unseen | det |
| 6 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warriors | amod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unseen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Flew | punct |
| 10 | Flew | Flew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | nmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 lightning | case |
| 12 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Flew | nmod |
| 13 | On | on | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journey | amod |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lightning | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warriors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | journey | warriors = warrior | nom journey «act 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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