Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
Therefore he could not wait, And he had not gone very far Into the woods, ere he Sat down and opened the bag.
Who acts: Master, ere · What happens: not wait, not go, sit down, open · To what, where: bag
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, ere), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 wait | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gone | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gone | advmod |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 gone | advmod |
| 14 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woods | det |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 far | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sat | punct |
| 18 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Sat | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Sat | nsubj |
| 20 | Sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 Sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 opened | cc |
| 23 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Sat | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bag | det |
| 25 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 opened | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | could | Master | therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | Master | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | ere | Master nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | open | past | ere not said here | the bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme |
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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