Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 2
Soon he who sought the girl Went whirling from his sled, And the two sorcerers howled In triumph an hurrah!
Who acts: Adown, girl, two sorcerers · What happens: seek, go, whirl, howl · To what, where: sled, hurrah, triumph
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adown, girl, two sorcerers), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Went | nsubj |
| 7 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sought | ccomp |
| 8 | whirling | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Went | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sled | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sled | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sled | sled | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whirling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 howled | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 howled | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sorcerers | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sorcerers | nummod |
| 16 | sorcerers | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 howled | nsubj |
| 17 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sought | conj |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 triumph | case |
| 19 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 howled | obl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hurrah | det |
| 21 | hurrah | hurrah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 howled | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Adown | who nsubj; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the girl | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | whirl | gerund | the girl not said here | Adown's sled | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sled=Destination | ||||
| 4 | howl | past | the two sorcerers | a hurrah | triumph | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hurrah=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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