Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 93

And these are indeed the bones Of the beavers who built the dam Across at Cape Blomidon And crossed the Annapolis Valley.

Who acts: beavers · What happens: be, build, cross · To what, where: bones, dam, Cape, Annapolis Valley

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 (beavers), 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	_	6 bones	cc
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 bones	det
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bones	cop
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 bones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bones	det
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	Of	of	ADP	_	9 beavers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beavers	det
9	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bones	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 built	nsubj
11	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beavers	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dam	det
13	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	obj
14	Across	across	ADP	_	16 Cape	case
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Cape	case
16	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 built	obl
17	Blomidon	Blomidon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Cape	flat
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 crossed	cc
19	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 built	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Valley	det
21	Annapolis	Annapolis	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Valley	compound
22	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 crossed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this bones		of the beavers; indeed property	tree rules
2	build	past	the beavers	the dam	Cape		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product
3	cross	past	the beavers not said here	the Annapolis Valley			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Patient

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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 93