Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 75
It was many leagues away, The Beaver deftly dodged it-- Few beasts are so quick at dodging-- But when another boulder Came after the first one, Kwâbît Ran deep into a mountain From which he came forth no more.
Who acts: anger, Beaver, many leagues, boulder · What happens: be, dodge, come · To what, where: many leagues, anger, more, mountain
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 (anger, Beaver, many leagues, boulder), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leagues | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leagues | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leagues | amod |
| 4 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 leagues | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dodged | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Beaver | det |
| 8 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dodged | nsubj |
| 9 | deftly | deftly | ADV | _ | 10 dodged | advmod |
| 10 | dodged | dodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leagues | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dodged | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 beasts | punct |
| 13 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beasts | amod |
| 14 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leagues | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 quick | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 quick | advmod |
| 17 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 19 dodging | mark |
| 19 | dodging | dodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 quick | advcl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Ran | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 Ran | cc |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 Came | mark |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 boulder | det |
| 24 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Came | nsubj |
| 25 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Ran | advcl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Came | punct |
| 31 | Kwâbît | Kwâbît | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Ran | compound |
| 32 | Ran | Ran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 quick | conj |
| 33 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 36 mountain | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 mountain | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mountain | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Ran | obl |
| 37 | From | from | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 came | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 came | nsubj |
| 40 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 41 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 40 came | advmod |
| 42 | no | no | ADV | _ | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 came | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | anger | many leagues and Few beasts | Few beasts conj; away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dodge | past | the Beaver | anger | deftly property | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | many leagues and Few beasts | Kwâbît Ran into a mountain conj; quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dodge | gerund | many leagues and Few beasts not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | another boulder | after the first one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | Beaver | more | a mountain | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_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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