Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 60
Taking the Leaf in her bill, the Red Bird Flew through the forest among the branches To the great tree which grew secluded In the safest place in all the mountain.
Who acts: Red Bird, Tempest · What happens: take, fly, seclude, bill · To what, where: Leaf, bill, forest, great tree, safest place
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 (Red Bird, Tempest), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Flew | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Leaf | det |
| 3 | Leaf | Leaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bill | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bill | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bird | det |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bird | flat |
| 10 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Flew | nsubj |
| 11 | Flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Flew | obl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 branches | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branches | det |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Flew | obl |
| 18 | To | to | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tree | amod |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Flew | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 secluded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 secluded | aux:pass |
| 24 | secluded | seclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tree | acl:relcl |
| 25 | In | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 27 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 place | amod |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 secluded | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 mountain | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 mountain | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mountain | det |
| 32 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 place | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the Red Bird not said here | the Leaf | Tempest's bill | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Value in bill=Location | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the Red Bird | the forest | among the branches; to the great tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through forest=Initial_Location among branch=Trajectory to tree=Destination | |||
| 3 | seclude | past · passive | the great tree | the safest place in all mountain | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in place=Location | ||||
| 4 | bill | Tempest | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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