Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

But the Master with silent soul Ever sang the songs of magic, The awful incantations, Till he had passed the darkness And came again into sunlight, The bright and beautiful day.

Who acts: Master, magic · What happens: sing, pass, come · To what, where: songs, darkness, sunlight

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 (Master, magic), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Master	det
3	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 soul	case
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soul	amod
6	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Master	nmod
7	Ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 sang	advmod
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 songs	det
10	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sang	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 magic	case
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 songs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 incantations	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 incantations	det
15	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 incantations	amod
16	incantations	incantation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 songs	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	Till	till	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	aux
21	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 sang	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 darkness	det
23	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obj
24	And	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 sunlight	case
28	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 day	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
31	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beautiful	cc
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bright	conj
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sunlight	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the Master with silent soul	the songs of magic and the awful incantations		ever	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
2	pass	past · perfect	Master	the darkness			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme darkness=Trajectory
3	come	past	Master not said here		sunlight and the bright day	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sunlight=Initial_Location
4	sing		magic				nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/13/14/

🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 14