Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

The great trees in the forest Were rent with frost, and the sound Was like thunder above, but still The Master and “He who was born After his mother’s death.”

Who acts: mother · What happens: rend, bear, die · To what, where: great trees, 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 (mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rent	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trees	nmod
7	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rent	aux:pass
8	rent	rend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 frost	case
10	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rent	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thunder	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thunder	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thunder	nsubj
15	Was	Was	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thunder	compound
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 thunder	case
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rent	conj
18	above	above	ADV	_	17 thunder	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Master	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 Master	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 Master	advmod
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Master	det
23	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rent	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 born	cc
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 born	punct
26	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 born	nsubj:pass
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 born	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 born	aux:pass
29	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Master	conj
30	After	after	ADP	_	34 death	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 death	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 mother	case
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 born	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Master	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 rent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rend	past · passive		the great trees in the forest		with frost; Was thunder the sound conj; the Master parataxis	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with frost=Instrument
2	bear in a quote	past · passive		sound	after sound's mother's death	the Master nsubj:pass	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	die in a quote		sound's mother				nom death «event 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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 38