Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 79
All in a band They went to the birch-tree, Then they observed that In one way only Could they approach Lappilatwan.
Who acts: band, birds · What happens: go, observe, approach · To what, where: birch tree, Lappilatwan, one way
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 (band, birds), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 band | det |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 band | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 band | det |
| 4 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 birch | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 observed | punct |
| 13 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 observed | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 observed | nsubj |
| 15 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 approach | mark |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 way | nummod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 approach | obl |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 approach | advmod |
| 21 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 approach | aux |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 approach | nsubj |
| 23 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 observed | ccomp |
| 24 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 approach | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | all band | the birch tree | birds = bird nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | observe | past | birds = bird | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | approach | could | birds = bird | Lappilatwan | one way | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lappilatwan=Theme |
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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