Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
Yet it seemed so far away They thought ’twould be a week Ere they should gain its top, But the Master led them on, And in the afternoon Of the day when they first beheld it, Lo, they were on the summit!
Who acts: it, pilgrims, Master · What happens: seem, think, be, gain, lead on, behold · To what, where: week, top, pilgrims, summit
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, pilgrims, Master), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 seemed | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 away | advcl |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 week | punct |
| 10 | twould | twould | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 week | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 week | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 week | det |
| 13 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 week | flat |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gain | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 gain | aux |
| 17 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 top | nmod:poss |
| 19 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gain | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 led | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 led | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Master | det |
| 23 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 led | nsubj |
| 24 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 led | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 led | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 summit | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 summit | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 afternoon | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 afternoon | det |
| 31 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 summit | obl |
| 32 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 afternoon | nmod |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 beheld | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 beheld | nsubj |
| 37 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 beheld | advmod |
| 38 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 day | acl:relcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 beheld | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 afternoon | punct |
| 41 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 47 summit | discourse |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Lo | punct |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 summit | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 summit | cop |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 summit | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 summit | det |
| 47 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | it | away property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | pilgrims = pilgrim | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | a week | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | gain | should | pilgrims = pilgrim | belt's top | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead on | past | the Master | pilgrims = pilgrim | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | behold | past | pilgrims = pilgrim | top | first property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is | past | pilgrims = pilgrim | the summit | afternoon | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/7/23/