Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 123
The weather grew ever warmer; The ice from the lake had melted, Grass, flowers and leaves were growing.
Who acts: weather, ice, flowers · What happens: grow, melt · To what, where: Grass
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 (weather, ice, flowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weather | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 warmer | advmod |
| 5 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 melted | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ice | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 melted | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ice | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 melted | aux |
| 13 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Grass | punct |
| 15 | Grass | Grass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 melted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 growing | punct |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 growing | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 leaves | cc |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flowers | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 growing | aux |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 melted | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the weather | warm property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | melt | past · perfect | the ice from the lake | Grass | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | flowers and leaves | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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