Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 67
The Master said to them smiling, And when he took them on it They found that it was indeed A great and large canoe With lofty masts, and sails-- So the two went forth rejoicing.
Who acts: Master, canoes, granite, two · What happens: say, smile, take, find, be, go · To what, where: canoes, granite, sails, great canoe · Speech: someone speaks here
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, canoes, granite, two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Master | det |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 smiling | mark |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 smiling | nsubj |
| 6 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 took | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 canoe | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 canoe | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 canoe | cop |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 25 canoe | advmod |
| 21 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 canoe | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 canoe | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 large | cc |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 great | conj |
| 25 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | ccomp |
| 26 | With | with | ADP | _ | 28 masts | case |
| 27 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 masts | amod |
| 28 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 canoe | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sails | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sails | cc |
| 31 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 went | punct |
| 33 | So | so | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 two | det |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 went | nsubj |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 37 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 went | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | canoes = canoe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Master | canoes = canoe | granite | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 4 | find | past | canoes = canoe | sails | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | granite | a great canoe | with lofty masts; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | go | past | the two | forth property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | rejoice | gerund | the two not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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