Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
He greatly loved mankind, And wherever he might be, Though afar in the wilderness, He never was far away, Away from his Indian children.
Who acts: thing · What happens: love, be, not be · To what, where: mankind, wilderness
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 (thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 loved | advmod |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afar | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 afar | cc |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 afar | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 afar | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 afar | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afar | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afar | punct |
| 12 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 afar | mark |
| 13 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loved | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wilderness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wilderness | det |
| 16 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afar | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 18 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 away | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 away | advmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 away | cop |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 loved | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Away | punct |
| 24 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 22 away | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 children | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 children | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 children | amod |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Away | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | thing | mankind | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mankind=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | might | thing | the wilderness | afar, wherever property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is | past | thing | away, far property | tree rules |
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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