Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 51
So the little Squʿtes and Mĭpis Went like a flame through the shades of the forest, Till they came to the cave of the grandsire.
Who acts: little Squʿtes · What happens: come, shade · To what, where: cave, forest
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Squʿtes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Squʿtes | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Squʿtes | amod |
| 4 | Squʿtes | Squʿtes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Went | cc |
| 6 | Mĭpis | Mĭpis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Went | compound |
| 7 | Went | Went | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Squʿtes | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 flame | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flame | det |
| 10 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Went | nmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 shades | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shades | det |
| 13 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flame | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shades | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 cave | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cave | det |
| 23 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 grandsire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grandsire | det |
| 26 | grandsire | grandsire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cave | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the little Squʿtes and Mĭpis Went like a flame through the shades of the forest | the cave of the grandsire | shades = shade nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shade | the forest | nom shade «state 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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