Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
Then, seeing him, fear came o’er her, But laughing aloud to hide it, She said: “I only chased him In sport, for I truly love him.”
Who acts: seeing fear, back · What happens: see, come, laugh, hide, say, chase · To what, where: sorceress, fear, sport · 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 (seeing fear, back), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 fear | compound |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seeing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughing | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughing | cc |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 came | advcl |
| 13 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 12 laughing | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hide | mark |
| 15 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 laughing | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hide | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 chased | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 chased | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 chased | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 chased | advmod |
| 24 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chased | obj |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 sport | case |
| 27 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chased | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 love | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 love | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 love | nsubj |
| 31 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 32 love | advmod |
| 32 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 chased | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 love | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | sorceress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come | past | seeing fear | then | o'er back | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | seeing fear not said here | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | seeing fear not said here | fear | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | back | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | chase in a quote | past | back | sorceress | sport | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sport=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | love in a quote | present | back | sorceress | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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