Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
Ere long the Sea Duck rose Again to get his breath, But long the Indians Waited and watched until They saw the Loon again.
Who acts: Sea Duck, Indians · What happens: rise, get, long, wait, watch, see · To what, where: breath, Loon
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 (Sea Duck, Indians), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Duck | det |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Duck | compound |
| 5 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 rose | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rose | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 breath | nmod:poss |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 long | cc |
| 14 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Indians | det |
| 16 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Waited | nsubj |
| 17 | Waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watched | cc |
| 19 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Waited | conj |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 saw | mark |
| 21 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 watched | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Loon | det |
| 24 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 saw | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Sea Duck | again | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the Sea Duck not said here | Duck's breath | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | long | past | the Sea Duck not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | past | the Indians | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch | past | the Indians not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see | past | Indians = indian | the Loon | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loon=Stimulus |
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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