Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 37
There were no Indians like us, Here in those early days; Only far in the West Lived red men strange and wild.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: be, live · To what, where: red men, West
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 Indians | det |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Indians | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Here | punct |
| 8 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 were | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 days | det |
| 11 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Here | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lived | punct |
| 14 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 Lived | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 West | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 West | det |
| 18 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Lived | obl |
| 19 | Lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Lived | obj |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Lived | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wild | cc |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strange | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no Indians like us | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | no Indians like us not said here | red men | the West | far, strange property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
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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