Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 64
But he puffed and puffed away As if he had been on the top Of a mountain in a breeze, Till one said: “This is idle, Let us go and play at ball!”
Who acts: anger, This, us · What happens: puff, puff away, be, say, let, go · To what, where: top, us, ball · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (anger, This, us), 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 | _ | 3 puffed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 puffed | nsubj |
| 3 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 puffed | cc |
| 5 | puffed | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puffed | conj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 puffed | advmod |
| 7 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 top | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 top | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 top | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 top | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 top | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puffed | advcl |
| 15 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 breeze | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 breeze | det |
| 20 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mountain | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 said | obl |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 puffed | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 idle | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 idle | punct |
| 27 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 idle | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 idle | cop |
| 29 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Let | punct |
| 31 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 idle | parataxis |
| 32 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 Let | obj |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 Let | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 play | cc |
| 35 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 Let | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 ball | case |
| 37 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 play | obl |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 idle | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 puffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff | past | anger | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 2 | puff away | past | anger not said here | away property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | anger | the top | of a mountain in a breeze | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | anger not said here | till one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | This | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | play in a quote | infinitive | ball | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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