Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 95
And at one pull he burned it Leaving no spark behind; And at one whiff he sent it Out in one great round ball; Then sat and looked at the Master.
Who acts: boulder · What happens: burn, leave, send out, sit, look · To what, where: pull, one pull, spark, one whiff
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 (boulder), 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 | _ | 6 burned | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 pull | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 pull | nummod |
| 4 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burned | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burned | nsubj |
| 6 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 burned | obj |
| 8 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 burned | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 spark | det |
| 10 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Leaving | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 8 Leaving | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 whiff | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 whiff | nummod |
| 16 | whiff | whiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burned | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ball | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 ball | nummod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ball | amod |
| 24 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ball | amod |
| 25 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sat | punct |
| 27 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 sat | advmod |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 burned | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looked | cc |
| 30 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sat | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Master | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Master | det |
| 33 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looked | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | boulder | pull | one pull | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | boulder not said here | no spark | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Theme | |||
| 3 | send out | past | boulder | spark | one whiff | in one great round ball | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ball=Destination | ||
| 4 | sit | past | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | at the Master | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at master=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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