Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 37
Then he bade him go down to a point Of very great rocks by the sea Where whales were always found, And told him to bring a whale, And gave him the might to do so.
Who acts: Was · What happens: bade, go down, find, tell, bring, give · To what, where: bade, whales, Was, whale, great rocks · 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 (Was), 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 bade | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | 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 bade | obj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 point | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 point | det |
| 9 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rocks | amod |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 point | nmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rocks | nmod |
| 17 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 found | advmod |
| 18 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 found | advmod |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sea | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 told | cc |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 told | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 whale | det |
| 29 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gave | cc |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | iobj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 might | det |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 gave | iobj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 gave | advcl |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 do | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Was | bade | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | Was not said here | to a point of great rocks by the sea; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | whales | always property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Was not said here | Was | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Was not said here | a whale | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument whale=Destination | ||||
| 6 | give | past | Was not said here | Was iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient might=Theme | ||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | Was not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | point | great rocks by the sea | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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