Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 27
They flew at the witches When both flashed up like fire In the terrible form of devils, As flaming female fiends.
Who acts: entrails · What happens: fly, flash up, flame, form · To what, where: both, female fiends, devils
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 (entrails), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 witches | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witches | det |
| 5 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 flashed | advmod |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 flashed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flew | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 flashed | compound:prt |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashed | obl |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 form | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 devils | case |
| 17 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 form | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flaming | punct |
| 19 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 flaming | mark |
| 20 | flaming | flame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 flashed | conj |
| 21 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fiends | amod |
| 22 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flaming | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | entrails = entrail | at the witches | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at witch=Location | ||||
| 2 | flash up | participle · passive | both | like fire; in the terrible form of devils | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in form=Topic | ||||
| 3 | flame | gerund | female fiends | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fiend=Theme | |||||
| 4 | form | devils | nom form «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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