Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
The Passamaquoddies followed them as soon as day broke, but the tracks were so scattered that they could not find the refugees.
Who acts: Passamaquoddies, Mohawks · What happens: follow, break, scatter, not find · To what, where: Mohawks, tracks, refugees
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Passamaquoddies, Mohawks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 2 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 followed | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 broke | mark |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soon | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 scattered | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tracks | det |
| 13 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 scattered | aux:pass |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 scattered | advmod |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 find | advmod |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 scattered | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 refugees | det |
| 23 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Passamaquoddies | Mohawks = mohawk | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past | the Passamaquoddies not said here | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past · passive | the tracks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not find | could | Mohawks = mohawk | the refugees | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refugee=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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