Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
But still the giants smoked on, And laughed and talked as before.
What happens: smoke on, laugh, talk · To what, where: giants
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: 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 smoked | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 smoked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smoked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 smoked | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smoked | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 talked | cc |
| 11 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 talked | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke on | participle · passive | the giants | still | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | talk | past | before property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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