Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 2
When she walked among the dry leaves, Her feet were so covered That they could not be seen; She walked in the woods Singing all the time: “I want company: I am lonesome!”
Who acts: woman, woods · What happens: walk, cover, not see, sing, want, be · To what, where: dry leaves, feet, That, woods, company, lonesome · 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 (woman, woods), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 walked | advcl |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leaves | det |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leaves | amod |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 9 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 covered | advmod |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 walked | conj |
| 14 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 seen | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 covered | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 21 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 woods | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woods | det |
| 25 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walked | obl |
| 26 | Singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 woods | acl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 time | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Singing | obj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 want | nsubj |
| 33 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 walked | advcl |
| 34 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 want | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 lonesome | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 lonesome | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 lonesome | cop |
| 38 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 walked | obl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 lonesome | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 lonesome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | woman | the dry leaves | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | woman's feet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | not see | could · passive | That | feet = foot nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | woman | the woods | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | the woods not said here | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | the woods = wood | company | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | the woods = wood | lonesome | tree rules |
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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