Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 102

Kulóskap then returned Unto the town, but there Found not a living soul, For a marvellous thing had come To pass while he was gone; A thing which shall be heard In every Indian’s speech Through all the ages, as ’Tis told by all to-day.

Who acts: Kulóskap, marvellous thing, thing · What happens: return, find, come, pass, be, hear · To what, where: thing, living soul, speech · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kulóskap, marvellous thing, thing), 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	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Unto	unto	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Found	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 Found	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 Found	expl
10	Found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 returned	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 soul	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 soul	det
13	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 soul	compound
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	For	for	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 thing	det
18	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thing	amod
19	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Found	conj
22	To	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 gone	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gone	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	cop
27	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pass	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thing	punct
29	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thing	det
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heard	nsubj:pass
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 heard	aux:pass
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 thing	acl:relcl
35	In	in	ADP	_	39 speech	case
36	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	37 Indian	det
37	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 speech	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Indian	case
39	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obl
40	Through	through	ADP	_	43 ages	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 ages	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ages	det
43	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 heard	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 told	mark
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 told	punct
47	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 told	compound
48	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 heard	conj
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 told	obl
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 day	case
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 to	punct
53	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 told	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Kulóskap	a thing		then	unto the town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	participle	Kulóskap not said here	a living soul	there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	a marvellous thing					tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	a marvellous thing not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	thing				gone property	tree rules
6	hear	shall · passive		a thing	every Indian's speech	through all ages		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	participle				day	by all; Tis compound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 102