Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 8
And grew until his head Was far above the clouds, Until he reached the stars, And ever higher still, Till Winpe seemed to be A child beneath his feet.
Who acts: head, Lord, Winpe · What happens: grow, be, reach, seem · To what, where: stars, child
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 (head, Lord, Winpe), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 grew | cc |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 10 clouds | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clouds | nsubj |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 clouds | cop |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 clouds | advmod |
| 8 | above | above | ADP | _ | 10 clouds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clouds | det |
| 10 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 12 | Until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stars | det |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 higher | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 higher | cc |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 higher | advmod |
| 20 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 grew | conj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 higher | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seemed | punct |
| 23 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 seemed | mark |
| 24 | Winpe | Winpe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 child | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 child | cop |
| 28 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 32 feet | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 child | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | Lord's head | until the clouds | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reach | past | Lord | the stars | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | Winpe | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Winpe not said here | a child | beneath Winpe's feet | tree rules |
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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