Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 84
Mosquitoes and midges Like gallant warriors Rushed on the squirrels, With their sharp spears.
What happens: rush · To what, where: gallant warriors, Mosquitoes
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: 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 | Mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 midges | cc |
| 3 | midges | midge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mosquitoes | conj |
| 4 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 6 warriors | case |
| 5 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warriors | amod |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 midges | nmod |
| 7 | Rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 warriors | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 squirrels | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squirrels | det |
| 10 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Rushed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spears | punct |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 15 spears | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 spears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spears | amod |
| 15 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mosquitoes | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mosquitoes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | gallant warriors not said here | on the squirrels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on squirrel=Trajectory |
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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