Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 68
Down fell the Red Bird, sorely wounded, And proud of his prey the boy ran homeward.
Who acts: boy · What happens: fall, run · To what, where: Red Bird, homeward
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 (boy), 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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 fell | advmod |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bird | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bird | flat |
| 5 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wounded | punct |
| 7 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 8 wounded | advmod |
| 8 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proud | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 proud | cc |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prey | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proud | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 prey | acl:relcl |
| 18 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Red Bird | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the boy | homeward | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/17/68/