Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 73

But then as time went by, They noted day by day That all the waters grew So stagnant and so foul That even the Master found He could not row his bark; All was so thick and dead, And rottenness and slime Crept into all the world.

Who acts: Indians, That, Master, All · What happens: go by, note, grow, foul, find, not row · To what, where: That, bark, rottenness, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Indians, That, Master, All), 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	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 noted	punct
8	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 noted	nsubj
9	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noted	obl:unmarked
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
13	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 grew	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 waters	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 waters	det
16	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 That	nmod
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 noted	parataxis
18	So	so	ADV	_	19 stagnant	advmod
19	stagnant	stagnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 foul	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 foul	advmod
22	foul	foul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grew	conj
23	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 foul	obj
24	even	even	ADV	_	26 Master	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Master	det
26	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 foul	advcl
28	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 row	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 row	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 row	advmod
31	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	ccomp
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 bark	nmod:poss
33	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 row	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 thick	punct
35	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 thick	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 thick	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 thick	advmod
38	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dead	cc
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thick	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Crept	punct
42	And	and	CCONJ	_	46 Crept	cc
43	rottenness	rottenness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Crept	nsubj:pass
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 slime	cc
45	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rottenness	conj
46	Crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 thick	conj
47	into	into	ADP	_	50 world	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 world	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Crept	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go by	past				then; time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	note	past	Indians = indian			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grow	past	That all waters			day	stagnant property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	foul	infinitive	That all waters not said here	That				tree rules
5	find	past	the Master					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not row	could	Master	Master's bark				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme
7	is	past	All				thick property	tree rules
8	be		All not said here					tree rules
9	creep	participle · passive		rottenness and slime	all world			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 73

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 73