Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
Ere long they heard the sound As of a paddle outside, And the noise of a canoe When it is drawn ashore.
Who acts: they, canoe · What happens: hear, draw, noise · To what, where: sound, noise
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 (they, canoe), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 paddle | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 As | fixed |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 paddle | det |
| 10 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 paddle | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drawn | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drawn | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drawn | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 canoe | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 canoe | det |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noise | nmod |
| 19 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 drawn | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawn | aux:pass |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 22 drawn | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | they | the sound | as a paddle; long property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | draw | present · passive | the noise of a canoe | ashore property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | noise | a canoe | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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