Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 89
The Black Cats heard her chopping, Pounding and chopping all night; And wondered what it might be.
Who acts: Black Cats, chopping · What happens: hear, pound, chop, wonder, be · To what, where: chopping · 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 (Black Cats, chopping), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cats | det |
| 2 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cats | compound |
| 3 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chopping | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chopping | chopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Pounding | punct |
| 8 | Pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chopping | cc |
| 10 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Pounding | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chopping | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondered | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondered | cc |
| 15 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 be | obj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wondered | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Black Cats | mighty's chopping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chopping=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pound | gerund | the Black Cats not said here | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | chop | gerund | the Black Cats not said here | night | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | the Black Cats not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | might | chopping | what obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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