Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 3
Then a great fear came upon them, They sat every man in his wigwam, Waiting for death in silence For they knew the Master had come.
Who acts: great fear, They, Master · What happens: come, sit, wait, know · To what, where: man, wigwam, silence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great fear, They, Master), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fear | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fear | amod |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
| 9 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wigwam | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Waiting | punct |
| 17 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sat | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Waiting | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 silence | case |
| 21 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Waiting | obl |
| 22 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 knew | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Waiting | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Master | det |
| 26 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a great fear | then | upon them = they | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | They | every man | fear's wigwam | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme in wigwam=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | They not said here | silence | for death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location | |||
| 4 | know | past | they | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | the Master | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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