Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
And looking from this afar, All seemed familiar to them: The plains and hills and river, And wood and dale and valley-- It was their native land!
Who acts: plain · What happens: look, seem, be · To what, where: plains, native land
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 (plain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 looking | cc |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seemed | advcl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 afar | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 afar | det |
| 5 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 seemed | advmod |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 familiar | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 plains | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 plains | det |
| 14 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seemed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hills | cc |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plains | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 river | cc |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plains | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wood | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wood | cc |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plains | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dale | cc |
| 23 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wood | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 valley | cc |
| 25 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wood | conj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 land | punct |
| 27 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 land | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 land | cop |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 land | nmod:poss |
| 30 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 land | amod |
| 31 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plains | conj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | from this afar | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from afar=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | the plains and hills and river and wood and dale and valley and pilgrims's native land | familiar property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | plain | pilgrims's native land | pilgrims = pilgrim nmod:poss | 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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