Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 81
The news spread afar, Soon there came flying The wasps and the hornets, The bees and the black flies, The angry mosquitoes: Even the midges, The little Chessúyek Came to the rescue Of Lappilatwan.
Who acts: news · What happens: spread, come, fly, rescue · To what, where: midges, wasps, Lappilatwan
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 (news), 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 | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spread | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 came | expl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wasps | det |
| 11 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flying | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hornets | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hornets | det |
| 14 | hornets | hornet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wasps | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bees | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bees | det |
| 17 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wasps | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flies | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flies | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flies | amod |
| 21 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wasps | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mosquitoes | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mosquitoes | det |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mosquitoes | amod |
| 25 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flies | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 midges | punct |
| 27 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 29 midges | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 midges | det |
| 29 | midges | midge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Came | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Came | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Came | amod |
| 33 | Chessúyek | Chessúyek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Came | compound |
| 34 | Came | came | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 midges | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 rescue | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rescue | det |
| 37 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Came | nmod |
| 38 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Lappilatwan | case |
| 39 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 rescue | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the news | afar property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the news not said here | the midges the little Chessúyek Came to the rescue of Lappilatwan | there | soon property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | fly | gerund | the news not said here | the wasps and the hornets and the bees and the black flies and the angry mosquitoes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wasp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rescue | Lappilatwan | nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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