Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 81
Thus it fared with the beautiful Red Bird; When the old Monimques beheld her, Long he was silent, then said: “My grandson!
Who acts: Fire, old Monimques, Monimques · What happens: fare, behold, be, say · To what, where: life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fire, old Monimques, Monimques), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 fared | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Bird | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bird | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 7 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bird | amod |
| 8 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fared | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 beheld | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Monimques | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Monimques | amod |
| 13 | Monimques | Monimques | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | nsubj |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fared | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beheld | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Long | punct |
| 17 | Long | Long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beheld | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 silent | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 silent | cop |
| 20 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Long | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fared | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 grandson | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 grandson | punct |
| 26 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 27 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | ccomp |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | past | Fire | with the beautiful Red Bird; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | the old Monimques | life | Long obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | Monimques | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Fire not said here | then | My grandson ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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