Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 47

But as the giant went On through the woods, and on, The beaver ever grew Larger and larger still, Till ’twas of monstrous size; Then he who bore it, took A mighty sapling.

Who acts: beaver, Larger · What happens: go, grow, bear, take · To what, where: woods, Larger, beaver, mighty sapling

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 (beaver, Larger), 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 went	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 giant	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	advcl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	On	on	ADP	_	9 woods	case
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
12	on	on	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 on	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beaver	det
15	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 grew	advmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
18	Larger	Larger	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 larger	cc
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 Larger	conj
21	still	still	ADV	_	17 grew	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 twas	punct
23	Till	till	ADP	_	25 twas	case
24	’	'	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 twas	amod
25	twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 size	case
27	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 size	amod
28	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 twas	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 bore	punct
30	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 bore	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bore	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bore	nsubj
33	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bore	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bore	conj
37	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 sapling	det
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sapling	amod
39	sapling	sapling	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 took	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past			the woods			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wood=Location
2	grow	past	the beaver	Larger		till ’ twas of monstrous size; ever; still		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location larger=Theme
3	bear	past	Larger	beaver		then	who nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	take	past	Larger not said here	a mighty sapling				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapling=Theme

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 47