Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 109

She could be fair when she would, Fair as a rosy sky With stars still beaming in it In very early dawn; Or terrible as a storm, When it howls among the mountains, And lightens in the midnight.

Who acts: Kulóskap, storm · What happens: be, beam, howl, lighten · To what, where: sky, mountains

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap, storm), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fair	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	cop
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 Fair	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Fair	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 Fair	aux
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fair	punct
9	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 sky	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sky	det
12	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sky	amod
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fair	obl
14	With	with	ADP	_	15 stars	case
15	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sky	nmod
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 beaming	advmod
17	beaming	beam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 Fair	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beaming	obl
20	In	in	ADP	_	23 dawn	case
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 early	advmod
22	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dawn	amod
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beaming	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 terrible	punct
25	Or	or	CCONJ	_	26 terrible	cc
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fair	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 storm	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 storm	det
29	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 terrible	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 howls	punct
31	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 howls	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 howls	nsubj
33	howls	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	parataxis
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 mountains	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mountains	det
36	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 howls	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lightens	punct
38	And	and	CCONJ	_	39 lightens	cc
39	lightens	lighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 howls	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 midnight	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 midnight	det
42	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lightens	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	Kulóskap			fair property	tree rules
2	beam	gerund	Kulóskap not said here	sky	still; dawn		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
3	be		Kulóskap not said here			as a storm	tree rules
4	howl	present	storm	the mountains			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location
5	lighten	present	storm not said here		midnight		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 109