Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 88
Now in that happy time, The sun shone warmer and brighter, The summers were far longer In the land of the Wabanaki Than they truly are to-day.
Who acts: sun, summers, sorcerers · What happens: shine, be · To what, where: land, Wabanaki Than
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 (sun, summers, sorcerers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 shone | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shone | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shone | nsubj |
| 9 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 shone | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brighter | cc |
| 12 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 warmer | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 land | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 summers | det |
| 15 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 land | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 land | cop |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 land | advmod |
| 19 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shone | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Than | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Than | det |
| 24 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Than | compound |
| 25 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 land | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 day | nsubj |
| 27 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 31 day | advmod |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 day | cop |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Than | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | now; time | warm property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the summers | the land | of the Wabanaki Than; long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | sorcerers = sorcerer | the Wabanaki Than not said here | to day | truly property | 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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