Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 72
And all of it came to pass As the Master had foretold; For the young men of the village All joined to kill the Turtle, And to escape them, Mikchik Jumped, when beset, so high Over the Sagamore’s lodge That he looked like an eagle flying.
Who acts: all, Master, lodge, eagle · What happens: come, pass, foretell, join, kill, escape · To what, where: village, Turtle, man, lodge
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 (all, Master, lodge, eagle), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 all | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pass | mark |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 foretold | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Master | det |
| 10 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 foretold | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 foretold | aux |
| 12 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 pass | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 14 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 21 | All | All | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 joined | nsubj |
| 22 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 village | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 joined | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Turtle | det |
| 26 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 escape | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 escape | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 escape | mark |
| 30 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 escape | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Jumped | punct |
| 33 | Mikchik | Mikchik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Jumped | compound |
| 34 | Jumped | Jumped | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 escape | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 beset | punct |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 beset | advmod |
| 37 | beset | beset | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 escape | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lodge | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 high | advmod |
| 40 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 lodge | advmod |
| 41 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 45 lodge | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Sagamore | det |
| 43 | Sagamore | Sagamore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 Sagamore | case |
| 45 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | parataxis |
| 46 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 looked | nsubj |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 looked | nsubj |
| 48 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 lodge | acl:relcl |
| 49 | like | like | ADP | _ | 51 eagle | case |
| 50 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 eagle | det |
| 51 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 looked | obl |
| 52 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 eagle | acl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all of chance | for the young men of the village; the Sagamore's lodge parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | all of chance not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | foretell | past · perfect | the Master | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | join | past | All | the village not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | All not said here | the Turtle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme | ||||
| 6 | escape | to-infinitive | all of chance not said here | man | Mikchik Jumped conj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | beset | present | all of chance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | look | past | the Sagamore's lodge | the Sagamore's lodge not said here | like a eagle; Master nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lodge=Attribute | |||
| 9 | fly | gerund | a eagle not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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