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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 113

It was an awful storm, A terrible storm in winter When the wind is chasing the clouds; It was like a frightful tempest In summer when the lightning Chases after the thunder.

Who acts: power, wind, lightning · What happens: be, chase · To what, where: awful storm, clouds

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, wind, lightning), 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

nsubjcopdetamodpunctdetamodapposcasenmodadvmoddetnsubjauxacldetobjpunctnsubjcopcasedetamodconjcasenmodmarkdetnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootItPRONwasAUXanDETawfulADJstormNOUN,PUNCTADETterribleADJstormNOUNinADPwinterNOUNWhenADVtheDETwindNOUNisAUXchasingVERBtheDETcloudsNOUN;PUNCTItPRONwasAUXlikeADPaDETfrightfulADJtempestNOUNInADPsummerNOUNwhenSCONJtheDETlightningNOUNChasesVERBafterADPtheDETthunderNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 stormnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 stormcop
3anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 stormdet
4awfulawfulADJDegree=Pos5 stormamod
5stormstormNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
6,,PUNCT_9 stormpunct
7AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 stormdet
8terribleterribleADJDegree=Pos9 stormamod
9stormstormNOUNNumber=Sing5 stormappos
10ininADP_11 wintercase
11winterwinterNOUNNumber=Sing9 stormnmod
12WhenwhenADVPronType=Int16 chasingadvmod
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 winddet
14windwindNOUNNumber=Sing16 chasingnsubj
15isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 chasingaux
16chasingchaseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 stormacl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 cloudsdet
18cloudscloudNOUNNumber=Plur16 chasingobj
19;;PUNCT_25 tempestpunct
20ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 tempestnsubj
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 tempestcop
22likelikeADP_25 tempestcase
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 tempestdet
24frightfulfrightfulADJDegree=Pos25 tempestamod
25tempesttempestNOUNNumber=Sing5 stormconj
26IninADP_27 summercase
27summersummerNOUNNumber=Sing25 tempestnmod
28whenwhenSCONJ_31 Chasesmark
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 lightningdet
30lightninglightningNOUNNumber=Sing31 Chasesnsubj
31ChaseschaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 tempestadvcl
32afterafterADP_34 thundercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 thunderdet
34thunderthunderNOUNNumber=Sing31 Chasesobl
35..PUNCT_5 stormpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastpowera awful storm and a frightful tempesta terrible storm in winter appostree rules
2chasepresent · progressivethe windthe cloudsvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme
3ispastpowersummerlike a frightful tempesttree rules
4chasepresentthe lightningafter the thundervn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after thunder=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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