Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
And still the mighty Master Could sing the wonderful song Which is heard to any distance, Away over forests and mountains, Over the rolling rivers.
Who acts: mighty Master · What happens: sing, hear, roll · To what, where: wonderful song, rolling rivers
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 (mighty Master), 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 | _ | 7 sing | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 sing | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Master | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Master | amod |
| 5 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | nsubj |
| 6 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sing | aux |
| 7 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 song | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 song | amod |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sing | obj |
| 11 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux:pass |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 song | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 distance | det |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Away | punct |
| 18 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 13 heard | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 forests | case |
| 20 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Away | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mountains | cc |
| 22 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forests | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rivers | punct |
| 24 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 27 rivers | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rivers | det |
| 26 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 rivers | amod |
| 27 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heard | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | could | the mighty Master | the wonderful song | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | present · passive | the wonderful song | the rolling rivers | to any distance; away property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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