Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 65
But in truth he did very little, For he had not gone far forward Ere he tripped and fell rolling over.
Who acts: Turtle · What happens: do, not go, trip, fall, roll over · To what, where: little, truth, Ere
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 did | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 truth | case |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 9 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 gone | advmod |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 did | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 Ere | advmod |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 far | advmod |
| 16 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tripped | nsubj |
| 18 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tripped | conj |
| 21 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 rolling | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Turtle | little | truth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | Turtle | Ere | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trip | past | Turtle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Turtle not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | roll over | gerund | Turtle not said here | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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