Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 80
And, making a single spring Of many rods to the dam, Took an arrow and bored a hole So that a little water Just trickled out, and then cried: “Up and begone, “Up and begone, “Up and begone!”
Who acts: making, little water · What happens: make, take, bore, trickle out, cry, begone · To what, where: arrow, hole · 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 (making, little 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Took | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Took | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spring | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spring | amod |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 making | obj |
| 7 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rods | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rods | amod |
| 9 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spring | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 dam | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dam | det |
| 12 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rods | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
| 14 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 arrow | det |
| 16 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bored | cc |
| 18 | bored | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Took | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bored | obj |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 bored | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 trickled | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 trickled | nsubj |
| 26 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 27 trickled | advmod |
| 27 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bored | advcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 trickled | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cried | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 cried | advmod |
| 32 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Took | conj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 begone | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 begone | punct |
| 35 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 37 begone | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 begone | cc |
| 37 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 cried | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Up | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Up | punct |
| 40 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 37 begone | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 begone | cc |
| 42 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 begone | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 begone | punct |
| 44 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 begone | punct |
| 45 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 47 begone | advmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 begone | cc |
| 47 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 begone | conj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 begone | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 begone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | spring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | take | past | making | a arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bore | past | making not said here | a hole | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | trickle out | past | a little water | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | making not said here | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | begone in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | begone | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | begone in a quote | infinitive | 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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