Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 70
Three days Onward and upward he went, Till on the third he came Unto the village where He found a solid dam Built over the rivulet So that no water could pass, But all was kept in a pond.
Who acts: folk, water · What happens: go, come, find, build, pass, keep · To what, where: solid dam, rivulet, all, pond
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 (folk, water), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Onward | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Onward | onward | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 upward | cc |
| 5 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 3 Onward | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 12 third | case |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 third | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 third | det |
| 12 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | parataxis |
| 15 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 found | advmod |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 village | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dam | det |
| 22 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dam | amod |
| 23 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 24 | Built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 dam | acl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 rivulet | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rivulet | det |
| 27 | rivulet | rivulet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Built | obl |
| 28 | So | so | ADV | _ | 33 pass | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 pass | mark |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 water | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pass | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pass | aux |
| 33 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Built | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 kept | punct |
| 35 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 kept | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | aux:pass |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 pond | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 pond | det |
| 41 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kept | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | folk | onward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | folk | till the third | unto the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | folk | a solid dam | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Topic | ||||
| 4 | build | participle | a solid dam not said here | the rivulet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | pass | could | no water | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | keep | past · passive | all | a pond | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pond=Location |
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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