Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 93

So the sorcerer sat to smoke With a pipe whose bowl was bigger Than the head of any man, With a stem full ten feet long; But ever that of Kulóskap Grew to the size of a pumpkin, And then like the ten-foot boulder Which lies on the beach at Rye; And the smoke which rose from his puffing Was like that of a forest fire.

Who acts: sorcerer, bowl, foot boulder, smoke, man · What happens: sit, smoke, be, lie, rise, puff · To what, where: beach, puffing

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 (sorcerer, bowl, foot boulder, smoke), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sorcerer	det
3	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 smoke	mark
6	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	xcomp
7	With	with	ADP	_	9 pipe	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pipe	det
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	obl
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 bowl	nmod:poss
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bigger	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bigger	cop
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 pipe	acl:relcl
14	Than	than	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bigger	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stem	punct
21	With	with	ADP	_	23 stem	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stem	det
23	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smoke	obl
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stem	amod
25	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 feet	nummod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 long	obl:unmarked
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 full	amod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 that	punct
29	But	but	CCONJ	_	31 that	cc
30	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 that	advmod
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sat	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Kulóskap	case
33	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 that	nmod
34	Grew	Grew	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Kulóskap	flat
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 size	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 size	det
37	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 pumpkin	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pumpkin	det
40	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 size	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 boulder	punct
42	And	and	CCONJ	_	49 boulder	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 boulder	advmod
44	like	like	ADP	_	49 boulder	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 boulder	det
46	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 foot	nummod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 ten	punct
48	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 boulder	compound
49	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	conj
50	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 lies	nsubj
51	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 boulder	acl:relcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 beach	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 beach	det
54	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lies	obl
55	at	at	ADP	_	56 Rye	case
56	Rye	Rye	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 lies	obl
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 rose	punct
58	And	and	CCONJ	_	62 rose	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 smoke	det
60	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 rose	nsubj
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 rose	nsubj
62	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
63	from	from	ADP	_	65 puffing	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 puffing	nmod:poss
65	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 rose	obl
66	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 that	cop
67	like	like	ADP	_	68 that	case
68	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	65 puffing	nmod
69	of	of	ADP	_	72 fire	case
70	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 fire	det
71	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 fire	compound
72	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 that	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the sorcerer		to the size of a pumpkin; that of Kulóskap conj; the foot boulder conj	tree rules
2	smoke	to-infinitive	the sorcerer not said here		with a pipe; with a stem	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pipe=Instrument
3	is	past	bowl		than the head of any man; big property	tree rules
4	lie	present	the foot boulder	the beach	at Rye	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location
5	rise	past	the smoke	man's puffing	which nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from puffing=Initial_Location
6	is	past			like that; of a forest fire	tree rules
7	puff		man			nom puffing «act transitive»: poss=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 93