Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 3
So two of the younger men Took a canoe and went forth To see what this might be.
Who acts: two, this · What happens: take, go, see, be · To what, where: canoe · 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 (two, this), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 Took | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 two | nmod |
| 7 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 canoe | det |
| 9 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Took | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | To | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | advcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 be | obj |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 be | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | two of the younger men | a canoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | two of the younger men not said here | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | two of the younger men not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | might | this | what obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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