Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 30
And both the giants laughed; And the sound of their laugh was heard All over the land afar, The Wabanaki land.
Who acts: giants, waves · What happens: laugh, hear · To what, where: sound
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 (giants, waves), 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 | _ | 5 laughed | cc |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 giants | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 laugh | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | aux:pass |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 laughed | parataxis |
| 15 | All | all | ADV | _ | 19 afar | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 afar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 afar | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afar | compound |
| 19 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 land | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 22 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 land | compound |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afar | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | both giants | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the sound of waves's laugh | the land afar and the Wabanaki land obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | waves = wave | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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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