Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 83

The squirrels rushed onward They rushed to the birch-tree: Yet only a few At once together Could climb up the trunk: Musesaaqua, the horse-fly, Was brave in that battle.

Who acts: squirrels, wasps, few · What happens: rush, climb up · To what, where: trunk

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 (squirrels, wasps, few), 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 squirrels	det
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rushed	nsubj
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onward	onward	ADV	_	3 rushed	advmod
5	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rushed	nsubj
6	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	parataxis
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 rushed	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 few	punct
13	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 few	cc
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 few	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 few	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 climb	nsubj
17	At	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 few	obl
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 once	advmod
20	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 climb	aux
21	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rushed	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 climb	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trunk	det
24	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 climb	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Musesaaqua	punct
26	Musesaaqua	Musesaaqua	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 brave	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fly	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fly	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fly	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 horse	punct
31	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Musesaaqua	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 brave	punct
33	Was	Be	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 brave	nsubj
34	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rushed	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 battle	case
36	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 battle	det
37	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 brave	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rush	past	the squirrels		onward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rush	past	wasps = wasp		to the birch tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
3	climb up	could	a few	the trunk		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location trunk=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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 83