Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 86
Now when they came to the isle They found three lodges there, And in two of them were men Who are not spoken of In any of the tales Which I have ever heard: In one dwelt Kulpujot-- A wondrous one indeed!
Who acts: BROTHERS, one · What happens: come, find, be, not speak, hear, dwell · To what, where: isle, three lodges, two men, tales, Kulpujot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (BROTHERS, one), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 isle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 isle | det |
| 7 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 isle | acl:relcl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 lodges | nummod |
| 11 | lodges | lodge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lodges | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 men | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 men | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 two | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 men | nummod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 two | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 men | cop |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 21 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 spoken | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 spoken | advmod |
| 24 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 men | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 any | case |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 any | case |
| 27 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 spoken | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tales | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tales | det |
| 30 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 any | nmod |
| 31 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 heard | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 heard | aux |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 heard | advmod |
| 35 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 tales | acl:relcl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 dwelt | punct |
| 37 | In | in | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 dwelt | nsubj |
| 39 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 40 | Kulpujot | Kulpujot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 dwelt | obj |
| 41 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kulpujot | punct |
| 42 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 one | det |
| 43 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 one | amod |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dwelt | obj |
| 45 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 39 dwelt | advmod |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | BROTHERS = brother | the isle | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to isle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | BROTHERS = brother | three lodges | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | two men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | present · passive | two men | of any of the tales | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | present · perfect · passive | the tales | ever | I nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | dwell | past | one | Kulpujot | a wondrous one obj; indeed 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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