Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 22
So, circling round the place, Kulóskap looked adown, And saw a lodge, and heard The voice distinctly sound, As he grew nearer; it Was Sable’s wondrous voice; Then heard him sing a curse Against all serpent kind, And he was wandering About the place to seek A stick, extremely straight.
Who acts: Kulóskap, voice · What happens: circle, look, see, hear, grow, be · To what, where: adown, lodge, voice, wondrous voice, Kulóskap, curse
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 (Kulóskap, voice), 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 | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 looked | advcl |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 circling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 circling | punct |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lodge | det |
| 15 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | parataxis |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 22 sound | advmod |
| 22 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grew | punct |
| 24 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 grew | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 grew | nsubj |
| 26 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | conj |
| 27 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 grew | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 voice | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 voice | nsubj |
| 30 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 voice | cop |
| 31 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 voice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Sable | case |
| 33 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 voice | amod |
| 34 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | parataxis |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 heard | punct |
| 36 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 heard | advmod |
| 37 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 heard | obj |
| 39 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 heard | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 curse | det |
| 41 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sing | obj |
| 42 | Against | against | SCONJ | _ | 44 serpent | mark |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 serpent | advmod |
| 44 | serpent | serpent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 sing | advcl |
| 45 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 serpent | xcomp |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 wandering | punct |
| 47 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 wandering | cc |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 wandering | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 wandering | aux |
| 50 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 heard | advcl |
| 51 | About | about | ADP | _ | 53 place | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 place | det |
| 53 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wandering | obl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 seek | mark |
| 55 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 wandering | advcl |
| 56 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 stick | det |
| 57 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 seek | obj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 straight | punct |
| 59 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 60 straight | advmod |
| 60 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 50 wandering | advmod |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | gerund | Kulóskap not said here | round the place | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Kulóskap | adown | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme adown=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Kulóskap not said here | a lodge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lodge=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | the voice | sound obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | Kulóskap | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | voice | Sable's wondrous voice | Sable nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hear | past | Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap | then | tree rules | |||
| 8 | sing speech: express | infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | a curse | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location curse=Theme | ||||
| 9 | serpent | present | Kulóskap not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Kulóskap | about the place; straight property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about place=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | seek | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | a stick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
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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