Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 69

Now they had sometime heard That, far away in the hills Where none of them had been, There was another village Upon this very stream; But what kind of people dwelt Therein, no one could say; So, thinking that these folk Knew something about the drought, They sent a man to look Into the thing.

Who acts: village, kind, one, folk, women · What happens: hear, be, dwell, say, think, know · To what, where: women, something, man · 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 (village, kind, one, folk), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 heard	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
4	sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 away	obl
13	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 been	advmod
14	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 been	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 none	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hills	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
20	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 village	det
23	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
24	Upon	upon	ADP	_	27 stream	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 stream	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 stream	advmod
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 village	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 dwelt	punct
29	But	but	CCONJ	_	34 dwelt	cc
30	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	31 kind	det
31	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dwelt	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 people	case
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 kind	nmod
34	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
35	Therein	therein	ADV	_	34 dwelt	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 say	punct
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 say	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 say	aux
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 dwelt	conj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 thinking	punct
42	So	so	ADV	_	44 thinking	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thinking	punct
44	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 dwelt	advcl
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 Knew	mark
46	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 folk	det
47	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 Knew	nsubj
48	Knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 thinking	ccomp
49	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	48 Knew	obj
50	about	about	ADP	_	52 drought	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 drought	det
52	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 something	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sent	punct
54	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 sent	nsubj
55	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dwelt	conj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 man	det
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sent	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 look	mark
59	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 sent	advcl
60	Into	into	ADP	_	62 thing	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 thing	det
62	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 look	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		women = woman		now	That obj; away, sometime property	tree rules
2	be	past	another village upon this stream		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dwell	past	what kind of people				therein property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	could	no one					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	gerund	what kind of people not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	know	past	this folk	something			about the drought	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
7	send	past	women = woman	a man				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
8	look	to-infinitive	women = woman not said here				into the thing	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into thing=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 69