Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 17
“Seek in the sand,” said the Master, Where he sought and found full many And greatly he marvelled at them.
Who acts: Master, mortal · What happens: seek, say, find, marvell · To what, where: sand · 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 (Master, mortal), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seek | punct |
| 2 | Seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sand | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Seek | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seek | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seek | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Master | det |
| 10 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sought | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sought | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sought | nsubj |
| 14 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Master | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sought | conj |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 found | xcomp |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 full | amod |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 marvelled | cc |
| 20 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 22 marvelled | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marvelled | nsubj |
| 22 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marvelled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | infinitive | the sand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek | past | mortal | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past | mortal not said here | full property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | marvell | past | mortal | at eggs = egg; greatly property | tree rules |
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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