Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 34
At every step his foot Met with the growing grass, Warm breezes greeted him, And many a forest flower Rose up and talked in song.
Who acts: foot, Warm breezes, many · What happens: meet, grow, greet, rise up, talk · To what, where: Homeward, song
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 (foot, Warm breezes, many), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 step | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 step | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Met | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 foot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Met | nsubj |
| 6 | Met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grass | det |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 grass | amod |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Met | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 greeted | punct |
| 12 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 breezes | amod |
| 13 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 greeted | nsubj |
| 14 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Met | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 greeted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rose | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Rose | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Rose | nsubj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flower | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flower | compound |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rose | nsubj |
| 22 | Rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 greeted | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 Rose | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 talked | cc |
| 25 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Rose | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 song | case |
| 27 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | Homeward's foot | at every step; with the growing grass | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with grass=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | Warm breezes | Homeward | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rise up | past | many | a forest flower nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | talk | participle | many not said here | song | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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.
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