Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 109
He sang again the song, But now with all his power; And then there came the Queen Of all the whales, and she Was as a giantess Even among her kind; She bore him easily Unto Kespūgitk, then She paused and said, “O Lord!
Who acts: KULÓSKAP, Queen · What happens: sing, come, be, bear, pause, say · To what, where: song, KULÓSKAP · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KULÓSKAP, Queen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 sang | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 power | punct |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 power | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 power | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 power | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 came | expl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 20 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 23 whales | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 whales | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whales | det |
| 23 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Queen | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giantess | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 giantess | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 giantess | nsubj |
| 27 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 giantess | cop |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 giantess | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 giantess | det |
| 30 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 31 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 34 kind | advmod |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 kind | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 kind | nmod:poss |
| 34 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 giantess | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 bore | punct |
| 36 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bore | nsubj |
| 37 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | parataxis |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bore | obj |
| 39 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 37 bore | advmod |
| 40 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 41 Kespūgitk | case |
| 41 | Kespūgitk | Kespūgitk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 bore | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 paused | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 paused | advmod |
| 44 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 paused | nsubj |
| 45 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bore | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 said | cc |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 paused | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Lord | punct |
| 49 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 Lord | punct |
| 50 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 51 Lord | discourse |
| 51 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 said | ccomp |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | the song | again | KULÓSKAP's power conj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | the Queen of all whales | there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Queen | as a giantess and Queen's kind; Queen's kind conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | past | Queen | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | unto Kespūgitk; easily property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 5 | pause | past | Queen | then | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Queen not said here | Lord ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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