Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 10
Then it happened in after years That Kulóskap came one day To visit his uncle, and saw A babe which uttered a word.
Who acts: it, Kulóskap, babe · What happens: happen, come, visit, see, utter · To what, where: uncle, babe, word
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. 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, babe), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Kulóskap | det |
| 8 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | To | to | PART | _ | 13 visit | mark |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 19 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 babe | det |
| 20 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 uttered | nsubj |
| 22 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 babe | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 uttered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | then; year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | that Kulóskap | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | that Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap's uncle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | that Kulóskap not said here | a babe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babe=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | utter speech: other | past | a babe | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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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