Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 124
The woman patiently waited Till her husband was asleep; Then she stole away in silence From the one whom she kissed no more Unto her serpent lover Whom she kissed with all her heart.
Who acts: woman, husband, Passion · What happens: wait, be, steal away, kiss · To what, where: silence, one, serpent lover
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 (woman, husband, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 asleep | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asleep | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asleep | cop |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stole | punct |
| 11 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 stole | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stole | nsubj |
| 13 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 stole | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 silence | case |
| 16 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stole | obl |
| 17 | From | from | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 silence | nmod |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 kissed | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kissed | nsubj |
| 22 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 kissed | obj |
| 25 | Unto | unto | ADP | _ | 28 lover | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 lover | nmod:poss |
| 27 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lover | compound |
| 28 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 more | obl |
| 29 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 kissed | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kissed | nsubj |
| 31 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lover | acl:relcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 heart | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 heart | det:predet |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kissed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the woman | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Passion's husband | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal away | past | Passion | silence from the one | then | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location | ||
| 4 | kiss | past | Passion | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kiss | past | Passion | Passion's serpent lover | with Passion's heart | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent whom=Experiencer with heart=Instrument |
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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