Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 4
Then he put forth his arm, And seizing the younger man Turned for a pace aside, And then again shot on.
Who acts: Adown · What happens: put, seize, turn, shot on · To what, where: arm, younger man
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seizing | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seizing | cc |
| 9 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seizing | obj |
| 13 | Turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 pace | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pace | det |
| 16 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Turned | obl |
| 17 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 13 Turned | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shot | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shot | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 shot | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 shot | advmod |
| 22 | shot | shot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shot | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Adown | Adown's arm | then | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | ||
| 2 | seize | gerund | Adown not said here | the younger man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | participle | the younger man not said here | for a pace; aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shot on | infinitive | Adown not said here | then; again | 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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