Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 95
So he cut the great dam near the shore, And he bade the boy Marten watch; For he said, “I greatly suspect That there is a little beaver Who is hiding hereabouts.”
Who acts: Master, little beaver · What happens: cut, bade, say, suspect, be, hide · To what, where: great dam, shore, boy, That, hereabouts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master, little beaver), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dam | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dam | amod |
| 6 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bade | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bade | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bade | nsubj |
| 13 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bade | obj |
| 16 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 watch | compound |
| 17 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bade | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 said | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 suspect | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 suspect | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 suspect | nsubj |
| 25 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 26 suspect | advmod |
| 26 | suspect | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 27 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 suspect | obj |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 suspect | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 beaver | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beaver | amod |
| 32 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 33 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hiding | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hiding | aux |
| 35 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 beaver | acl:relcl |
| 36 | hereabouts | hereabout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hiding | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Master | the great dam | the shore | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | |||
| 2 | bade | past | Master | the boy | Marten watch obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suspect in a quote | present | Master | That | greatly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute | |||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | a little beaver | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hide in a quote | present · progressive | a little beaver | hereabouts | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hereabout=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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