Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 35

But ever the cold came on, And at midnight, when the fire And fuel were all burnt out, The Marten froze to death, And then the grandmother.

Who acts: cold, Marten · What happens: come on, burnt out, freeze · To what, where: grandmother, fire

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 (cold, Marten), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 midnight	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 midnight	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 burnt	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 burnt	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fire	det
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burnt	nsubj:pass
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 fuel	cc
16	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fire	conj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 burnt	aux:pass
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 burnt	advmod
19	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 midnight	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 burnt	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 froze	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Marten	det
23	Marten	Marten	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 froze	nsubj
24	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 burnt	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 froze	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grandmother	punct
28	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 grandmother	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 grandmother	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grandmother	det
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	the cold	the grandmother	ever; midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burnt out	past · passive		the fire and fuel		all property	tree rules
3	freeze	past	the Marten			to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 10, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 35