Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 118

Far away, very far in the North, There dwelt by a great fair lake An Indian and his wife, A very beautiful woman Given to strange wild dreams; Passion was in her blood.

Who acts: Passion · What happens: dwell, give, be · To what, where: beautiful woman, strange wild dreams, blood

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 (Passion), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 far	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Far	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 dwelt	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 North	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 North	det
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 far	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 far	punct
10	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 dwelt	expl
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 lake	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lake	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lake	amod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lake	amod
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
17	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Indian	det
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lake	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wife	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Indian	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 woman	punct
23	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 beautiful	advmod
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wife	appos
27	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 woman	acl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 dreams	case
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dreams	amod
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dreams	amod
31	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Given	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 blood	punct
33	Passion	Passion	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 blood	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 blood	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 blood	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 blood	nmod:poss
37	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wife	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	participle				there	by a great fair lake; far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by lake=Location
2	give	participle		a beautiful woman not said here	strange wild dreams			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dream=Recipient
3	is	past	Passion			Passion's blood		tree rules

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 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 118