Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 88
Soon as they heard it All of the warriors, Squirrels and insects Valiant mosquitoes, Humble hornets, Bold bumble-bees, Wild whizzing wasps, Gallant merry midges Went to their wigwams.
Who acts: Was, Gallant merry midges · What happens: hear, go · To what, where: All, wigwams
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 (Was, Gallant merry midges), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 heard | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 All | nsubj |
| 6 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 warriors | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 warriors | det |
| 9 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 All | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Squirrels | punct |
| 11 | Squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warriors | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 insects | cc |
| 13 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warriors | conj |
| 14 | Valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mosquitoes | amod |
| 15 | mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 warriors | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hornets | punct |
| 17 | Humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hornets | amod |
| 18 | hornets | hornet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mosquitoes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bees | punct |
| 20 | Bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bees | amod |
| 21 | bumble | bumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bees | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 bumble | punct |
| 23 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mosquitoes | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wasps | punct |
| 25 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wasps | amod |
| 26 | whizzing | whizzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wasps | compound |
| 27 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mosquitoes | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 29 | Gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 midges | amod |
| 30 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 midges | amod |
| 31 | midges | midge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Went | nsubj |
| 32 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 wigwams | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wigwams | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wigwams | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Went | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Was = be | All fungus of the warriors and Squirrels and insects and Valiant mosquitoes and Humble hornets and Bold bumble bees and Wild whizzing wasps | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | past | Gallant merry midges | midges's wigwams | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location |
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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