Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 105
I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Chibelaʿkwe, night-air spirit, flies To hearken to the mystic sound I make; And old Wuʾchoʿsen, storm-bird of the North, Rests his great pinions, causing calm to reign, To hearken to the mystic sound I make.
Who acts: I, Chibelaʿkwe, old Wuʾchoʿsen · What happens: sit, beat, fly, hearken, make, rest · To what, where: magic drum, mystic sound, great pinions
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 (I, Chibelaʿkwe, old Wuʾchoʿsen), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beat | cc |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wizard | det |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 wizard | case |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drum | compound |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 flies | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flies | cc |
| 12 | Chibelaʿkwe | Chibelaʿkwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 flies | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spirit | punct |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 air | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spirit | compound |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Chibelaʿkwe | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Chibelaʿkwe | punct |
| 19 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 20 | To | to | PART | _ | 21 hearken | mark |
| 21 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 flies | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 sound | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 24 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sound | amod |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hearken | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sound | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Wuʾchoʿsen | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Wuʾchoʿsen | cc |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Wuʾchoʿsen | amod |
| 31 | Wuʾchoʿsen | Wuʾchoʿsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Rests | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bird | punct |
| 33 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bird | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 storm | punct |
| 35 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Wuʾchoʿsen | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 North | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 North | det |
| 38 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bird | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Rests | punct |
| 40 | Rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | parataxis |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pinions | nmod:poss |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pinions | amod |
| 43 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Rests | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 causing | punct |
| 45 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 Rests | advcl |
| 46 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 causing | xcomp |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 reign | mark |
| 48 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 calm | xcomp |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 hearken | punct |
| 50 | To | to | PART | _ | 51 hearken | mark |
| 51 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 reign | conj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 sound | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sound | det |
| 54 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 sound | amod |
| 55 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hearken | obl |
| 56 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 make | nsubj |
| 57 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 sound | acl:relcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | I not said here | the wizard's magic drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | present | Chibelaʿkwe | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hearken | to-infinitive | Chibelaʿkwe not said here | to the mystic sound | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present | I | the mystic sound not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product | ||||
| 6 | rest | present | old Wuʾchoʿsen | Wuʾchoʿsen's great pinions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cause | gerund | old Wuʾchoʿsen not said here | calm property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 8 | reign | to-infinitive | old Wuʾchoʿsen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | hearken | to-infinitive | old Wuʾchoʿsen not said here | to the mystic sound | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | make | present | I | the mystic sound not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |
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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