Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 100
Then He hurled him with contempt Into the stream to follow The current ever on.
Who acts: Frog · What happens: hurl, follow · To what, where: Begone, stream, current
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 (Frog), 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 hurled | advmod |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurled | nsubj |
| 3 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurled | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 contempt | case |
| 6 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurled | obl |
| 7 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurled | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 follow | mark |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hurled | advcl |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 current | det |
| 13 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 follow | obj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 on | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 follow | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | Frog | Begone | the stream | then | with contempt | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into stream=Destination | |
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Frog not said here | the current | ever | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=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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