Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

She came to them in the morning, But a fragment from the tree Ever adhered to her back: So they laughed at her in scorn, And sang together these words:

Who acts: mighty, fragment, Cats · What happens: come, adhere, laugh, sing · To what, where: Cats, words

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, fragment, Cats), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 adhered	punct
9	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 adhered	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fragment	det
11	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 adhered	nsubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fragment	nmod
15	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 adhered	advmod
16	adhered	adhere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 adhered	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 laughed	punct
21	So	so	ADV	_	23 laughed	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughed	nsubj
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughed	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 scorn	case
27	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laughed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sang	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 sang	cc
30	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughed	conj
31	together	together	ADV	_	30 sang	advmod
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 words	det
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sang	obj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	mighty		Cats = cat	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	adhere	past	a fragment from the tree			ever	to mighty's back	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to back=Co-Theme
3	laugh	past	Cats = cat				at mighty; in scorn	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scorn=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	Cats = cat not said here	this words			together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 90