Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 131
With a cry as of merry singing; So he sought to find the people; ’Twas a week before he found them.
Who acts: man · What happens: seek, find · To what, where: Twas, people
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 cry | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cry | det |
| 3 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sought | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 singing | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 singing | amod |
| 7 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 sought | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sought | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Twas | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Twas | punct |
| 18 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 week | det |
| 20 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Twas | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 found | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sought | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | man | Twas a week | with a cry as merry singing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | past | man | people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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