Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 102
From mountain lair and forest nook they throng; E’en mighty storms obey the dreadful sound.
Who acts: lair, E’en mighty storms · What happens: throng, obey · To what, where: dreadful sound, mountain lair
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 (lair, E’en mighty storms), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 lair | case |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lair | compound |
| 3 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obey | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 throng | cc |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nook | compound |
| 6 | nook | nook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 throng | compound |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 throng | nsubj |
| 8 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lair | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 lair | punct |
| 10 | E’en | E'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 storms | compound |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 storms | amod |
| 12 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 obey | nsubj |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 15 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sound | amod |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obey | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throng | lair | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | obey | present | E’en mighty storms | the dreadful sound | mountain lair and nook throng | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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