Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 148
And so he went his way, Bearing the magic house Lightly upon his head, Till he came to a hard-wood ridge In which was a bubbling spring; And here he said: “I will live.”
Who acts: man · What happens: go, bear, come, bubble, be, say · To what, where: way, magic house, wood ridge, bubbling spring · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Bearing | punct |
| 8 | Bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Bearing | obj |
| 12 | Lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 8 Bearing | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lightly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ridge | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ridge | det |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wood | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hard | punct |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ridge | compound |
| 25 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 spring | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 spring | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 spring | det |
| 30 | bubbling | bubble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 spring | amod |
| 31 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ridge | appos |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 here | cc |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 said | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 said | nsubj |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 live | punct |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 live | punct |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 live | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 live | aux |
| 41 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 said | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 live | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | man's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | man not said here | the magic house | lightly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | past | man | a wood ridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bubble | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | a bubbling spring | a wood ridge | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | man | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | future | man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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