Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 15
Straight at his dogs they flew; He did but touch the dogs, And speak a word of power, When up they grew to size Stupendous, so they seized The beasts e’en as the wolf Seizes a rabbit.
Who acts: beasts, wolverine · What happens: fly, do, touch, speak, grow, seize · To what, where: dogs, word, beasts, power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, wolverine), 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 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 flew | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 dogs | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flew | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 touch | cc |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 did | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dogs | det |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 touch | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 speak | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 speak | cc |
| 16 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 flew | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 speak | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 word | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grew | punct |
| 22 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 grew | advmod |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 grew | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 grew | nsubj |
| 25 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 speak | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 size | case |
| 27 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grew | obl |
| 28 | Stupendous | Stupendous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 size | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seized | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 seized | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seized | nsubj |
| 32 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flew | conj |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 beasts | det |
| 34 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 seized | obj |
| 35 | e’en | e'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 beasts | flat:foreign |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 Seizes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wolf | det |
| 38 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Seizes | nsubj |
| 39 | Seizes | Seize | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 seized | obl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 rabbit | det |
| 41 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seized | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | beasts = beast | at wolverine's dogs; straight property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dog=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past | wolverine | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | touch | infinitive | wolverine not said here | the dogs | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | beasts = beast not said here | a word of power | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | beasts = beast | to size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | seize | past | beasts = beast | the beasts | as Seizes the wolf; a rabbit obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | word | power | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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