Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 37
The herald, springing to land, first sang his salutation song (_nʾskawewintuagun_), walking back and forth before the ranks of the other tribe.
Who acts: herald · What happens: spring, sing, walk back · To what, where: land, salutation song, ranks
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herald), 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 herald | det |
| 2 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 springing | punct |
| 4 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 herald | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 springing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 herald | punct |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sang | advmod |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 song | nmod:poss |
| 11 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 song | compound |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 nʾskawewintuagun | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 nʾskawewintuagun | punct |
| 15 | nʾskawewintuagun | nʾskawewintuagun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 song | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 nʾskawewintuagun | punct |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 nʾskawewintuagun | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walking | punct |
| 19 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sang | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 walking | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 forth | cc |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 back | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 ranks | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ranks | det |
| 25 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 walking | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tribe | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tribe | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tribe | amod |
| 29 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ranks | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | gerund | the herald not said here | land | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to land=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the herald | herald's salutation song | first property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | walk back | gerund | the herald not said here | the ranks of the other tribe | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rank=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sing | herald | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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