Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 73
But one day when far away, So far that none could see Who had not the magic vision, Kulóskap saw the Beaver Defying his injunction, And drinking from the stream.
Who acts: none, Kulóskap, Beaver · What happens: see, have, defy, drink, enjoin · To what, where: magic vision, Beaver, injunction, stream · 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 (none, Kulóskap, Beaver), 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 | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 away | mark |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 far | punct |
| 8 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 far | advcl |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | ccomp |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 vision | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vision | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 vision | amod |
| 19 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Beaver | det |
| 24 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | Defying | defy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 injunction | nmod:poss |
| 27 | injunction | injunction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Defying | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 drinking | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 drinking | cc |
| 30 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Defying | conj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 stream | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stream | det |
| 33 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 drinking | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the magic vision | Who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Kulóskap | the Beaver | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | defy | gerund | the Beaver not said here | Kulóskap's injunction | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | the Beaver not said here | the stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from stream=Source | ||||
| 6 | enjoin | Kulóskap | nom injunction «communication transitive»: 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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