Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
But when he turned his head He found the stranger had vanished, And then he said to himself: “Now have I seen Kulóskap, The Lord of Beasts and Men.”
Who acts: dog, stranger · What happens: turn, find, vanish, say, see · To what, where: head, dog, Kulóskap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dog, stranger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 turned | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vanished | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vanished | aux |
| 12 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 said | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Lord | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lord | det |
| 29 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Kulóskap | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Beasts | case |
| 31 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 Lord | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Men | cc |
| 33 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Kulóskap | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | dog | dog's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | dog | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past · perfect | the stranger | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | dog | dog | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | present · perfect | dog | Kulóskap and the Lord of Beasts and Men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kulóskap=Stimulus |
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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