Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 90
And they found a mighty solace In burning the gold-brown leaves.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: find, burn · To what, where: mighty solace, brown leaves
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 (Indians), 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 | _ | 3 found | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 solace | det |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 solace | amod |
| 6 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 burning | mark |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 found | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaves | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brown | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 gold | punct |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leaves | amod |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burning | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Indians = indian | a mighty solace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solace=Topic | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | the brown leaves | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=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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