Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 1

Now it came to pass in the morning, That old Dame Kâkâgûch, The meddling and spying Crow, Observed that meat was drying In the smoke of the Master’s wigwam.

Who acts: it, meat, wigwam · What happens: come, pass, spy, observe, dry, smoke · To what, where: old Dame Kâkâgûch, Crow, meddling, smoke

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, meat, wigwam), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Kâkâgûch	punct
10	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Kâkâgûch	nsubj
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Kâkâgûch	amod
12	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Kâkâgûch	compound
13	Kâkâgûch	Kâkâgûch	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 meddling	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meddling	det
16	meddling	meddling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Kâkâgûch	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spying	cc
18	spying	spy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 meddling	conj
19	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spying	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Observed	punct
21	Observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 meddling	acl:relcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 drying	mark
23	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drying	aux
25	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 Observed	advcl
26	In	in	ADP	_	28 smoke	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 smoke	det
28	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drying	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 wigwam	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Master	det
31	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 wigwam	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Master	case
33	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smoke	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	it	old Dame Kâkâgûch That		now	tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive				morning	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spy	gerund		Crow			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus
4	observe	participle		the meddling not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	dry	past · progressive	meat		the smoke of the Master's wigwam		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	smoke		the Master's wigwam				nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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 13, sentence 1