Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 90
Once as an Indian girl Was gathering blue-berries, On Mount Katahdin’s side, She felt a strange loneliness, And said unto herself: “I would that I were wed Unto some brave great man!”
Who acts: Indian girl, girl · What happens: gather, feel, say, w · To what, where: blue berries, side, strange loneliness, that · 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 (Indian girl, girl), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 gathering | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 gathering | mark |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathering | nsubj |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathering | aux |
| 7 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 felt | advcl |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 berries | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 blue | punct |
| 10 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gathering | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 side | punct |
| 12 | On | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 13 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Katahdin | Katahdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mount | flat |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Mount | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathering | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gathering | punct |
| 18 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 loneliness | det |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 loneliness | amod |
| 22 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | conj |
| 26 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 27 herself | case |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 said | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 wed | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 wed | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 would | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 wed | aux |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 wed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 wed | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wed | aux:pass |
| 35 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 said | ccomp |
| 36 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 40 man | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 man | det |
| 38 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wed | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 wed | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · progressive | a Indian girl | blue berries | Mount's side | once property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | ||
| 2 | feel | past | girl | a strange loneliness | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loneliness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | girl not said here | unto girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | w in a quote | would · passive | that | unto some brave great man; I nsubj | 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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