Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 159
[68] A man was walking in the woods and he heard something far off.
Who acts: 68, man · What happens: walk, hear · To what, where: woods, something
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 (68, 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 68 | punct |
| 2 | 68 | 68 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 68 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 woods | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woods | det |
| 10 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 walking | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | conj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 heard | obj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 off | advmod |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 heard | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | 68 | the woods | a man nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hear | past | man | something | off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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