Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 63
Yet, after they ceased to behold him, They still heard his voice in song, The wonderful voice of the Master!
Who acts: waves · What happens: cease, behold, hear · To what, where: lord, voice, 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 (waves), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yet | punct |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 ceased | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ceased | nsubj |
| 5 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 behold | mark |
| 7 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ceased | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 behold | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceased | punct |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 heard | advmod |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 song | case |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 voice | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 song | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Master | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Master | det |
| 23 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 voice | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | waves = wave | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | behold | to-infinitive | waves = wave not said here | lord | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | waves = wave | lord's voice | song the wonderful voice of the Master | still | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
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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