Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 64
So he put on his snow-shoes, Taking his bow and arrows, And she followed silently after To see what he would do.
Who acts: Turtle, wife · What happens: put, take, follow, see, do · To what, where: snow shoes, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Turtle, wife), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoes | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snow | punct |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Taking | punct |
| 10 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Taking | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrows | cc |
| 14 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bow | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 19 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 18 followed | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 21 | To | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 followed | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 do | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Turtle | Turtle's snow shoes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Turtle not said here | Turtle's bow and arrows | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | wife | silently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | would | Turtle | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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