Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 49

Then when the night came on They fished for whales again, And feasted as before And had the cold again; So, even as before, The grandmother lay dead Of cold, with Marten, too.

Who acts: night, trees, grandmother · What happens: come, fish, feast, have, lie

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 (night, trees, grandmother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	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	SCONJ	_	8 fished	mark
7	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fished	nsubj
8	fished	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 whales	case
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fished	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 fished	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feasted	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 feasted	cc
14	feasted	feast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	parataxis
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 feasted	advmod
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 as	fixed
17	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 feasted	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cold	det
20	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 had	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 cold	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
23	So	so	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 before	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 before	advmod
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 before	punct
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grandmother	det
30	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	nsubj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	xcomp
33	Of	of	ADP	_	34 cold	case
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dead	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Marten	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 Marten	case
37	Marten	Marten	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 too	punct
39	too	too	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the night	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fish	past	trees = tree	again	for whales	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for whale=Theme
3	feast	participle				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past			cold property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	lie	past	the grandmother		with Marten; before, dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 49