Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 129
He saw upon her Bright shining silver scales; He asked her what ’twas that glittered?
Who acts: husband, twas · What happens: see, shine, ask, glitter · To what, where: twas, Said
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 (husband, twas), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 scales | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 scales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scales | amod |
| 6 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 scales | amod |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scales | compound |
| 8 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 twas | punct |
| 15 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 glittered | nsubj |
| 17 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 twas | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | husband | upon Said's Bright shining silver scales | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | husband | twas | Said | what obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | glitter | past | twas | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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