Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 112
It was a dreadful flight, Since to make their steps the longer Both took the giant form, Took it by magic power.
Who acts: power, Both, Witches · What happens: be, make, take, step · To what, where: dreadful flight, steps, giant form, power
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 (power, Both, Witches), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flight | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flight | det |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flight | amod |
| 5 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 7 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 flight | parataxis |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steps | nmod:poss |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 longer | det |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 took | advmod |
| 14 | Both | Both | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 form | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Took | punct |
| 20 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Took | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 power | amod |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | power | a dreadful flight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Witches's steps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Both | the giant form | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past | Both not said here | power | by magic power | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | step | Witches = witch | nom step «act transitive»: 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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