Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 85
Ere the first squirrel Was half-way up the birch-tree, He and his followers Fell to the ground Wounded and dying.
Who acts: Ere, squirrel · What happens: be, fall, die · To what, where: 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 (Ere, squirrel), 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 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 squirrel | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 squirrel | amod |
| 4 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nsubj |
| 5 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 way | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 birch | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fell | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Fell | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followers | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 followers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 He | conj |
| 19 | Fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Fell | obl |
| 23 | Wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Fell | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dying | cc |
| 25 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 Fell | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ere | way | up the birch tree; the first squirrel nsubj; half property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past | squirrel | to the ground; wounded property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | squirrel not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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