Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 108
I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; And Appodumken, with his long, red hair, Ariseth from the depths, and draweth near To hearken to the mystic sound I make.
Who acts: I, Appodumken · What happens: sit, beat, arise, draw, hearken, make · To what, where: magic drum, depths, mystic sound
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, Appodumken), 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 | _ | 21 Ariseth | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Ariseth | cc |
| 12 | Appodumken | Appodumken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ariseth | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hair | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Appodumken | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Appodumken | punct |
| 21 | Ariseth | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | parataxis |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 depths | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 depths | det |
| 24 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Ariseth | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 draweth | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 draweth | cc |
| 27 | draweth | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Ariseth | conj |
| 28 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 hearken | mark |
| 29 | To | to | PART | _ | 30 hearken | mark |
| 30 | hearken | hearken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 draweth | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 sound | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sound | det |
| 33 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sound | amod |
| 34 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hearken | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 make | nsubj |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 sound | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | 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 | arise | present | Appodumken | the depths | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | present | Appodumken not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hearken | to-infinitive | Appodumken not said here | to the mystic sound | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | 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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