Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 27

In despair She plunged into the deep and there became The _wĕbĕtumekw_, a ferocious shark Which has upon its back a mighty fin Like a great sail when swimming in the sea.

Who acts: shape, ferocious shark · What happens: plunge, become, have, swim · To what, where: wĕbĕtumekw, mighty fin, sea

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 (shape, ferocious shark), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 despair	case
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	obl
3	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 plunged	nsubj
4	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 deep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deep	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plunged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 became	advmod
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plunged	conj
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wĕbĕtumekw	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 wĕbĕtumekw	punct
13	wĕbĕtumekw	wĕbĕtumekw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 wĕbĕtumekw	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shark	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shark	det
17	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shark	amod
18	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wĕbĕtumekw	conj
19	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 shark	acl:relcl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fin	det
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fin	amod
26	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
27	Like	like	ADP	_	30 sail	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sail	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sail	amod
30	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fin	nmod
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 swimming	mark
32	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 sail	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 sea	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sea	det
35	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swimming	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plunge	past	shape			into the deep; in despair	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in despair=Attribute
2	become	past	shape not said here	the wĕbĕtumekw and a ferocious shark	there		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	a ferocious shark	a mighty fin		upon shark's back; like a great sail	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient
4	swim	gerund			the sea		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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 11, sentence 27