Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 39
These Elves would always work at night along the river shore, And fashion little wheels of clay and leave them on the bank.
Who acts: Elves · What happens: work, leave · To what, where: ELVES, bank
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 (Elves), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Elves | det |
| 2 | Elves | Elf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 work | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 work | advmod |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shore | compound |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 work | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wheels | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wheels | cc |
| 14 | fashion | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wheels | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wheels | amod |
| 16 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shore | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 clay | case |
| 18 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wheels | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bank | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bank | det |
| 24 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | would | this Elves | night | along the river shore and fashion little wheels of clay; always property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | this Elves not said here | ELVES = elf | the bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on bank=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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