Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
It happened on a time When Kulóskap was afar, The Sable broke his flute, And, deeply crushed with grief, Would not return again, But wandered far away Into the wilderness.
Who acts: It, Kulóskap, Sable, grief · What happens: happen, be, break, crush, not return, wander · To what, where: flute, wilderness
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Kulóskap, Sable, grief), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 afar | advmod |
| 7 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 afar | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afar | cop |
| 9 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 broke | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sable | det |
| 12 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 flute | nmod:poss |
| 15 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 broke | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crushed | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crushed | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crushed | punct |
| 19 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 20 crushed | advmod |
| 20 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 broke | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 grief | case |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crushed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 24 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 return | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 return | advmod |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 grief | acl:relcl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 return | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wandered | punct |
| 29 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 wandered | cc |
| 30 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 wandered | advmod |
| 33 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 35 wilderness | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wilderness | det |
| 35 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wandered | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kulóskap | afar property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | past | the Sable | Kulóskap's flute | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flute=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crush | participle | the Sable not said here | with grief; deeply property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grief=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | not return | would | grief not said here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wander | past | the wilderness | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Destination |
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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