Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 64
But the sounds grew fainter and fainter And softer in the distance, Till at last they died away.
Who acts: sounds · What happens: grow, die away · To what, where: last
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 (sounds), 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 | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sounds | det |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fainter | cc |
| 7 | fainter | faint | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fainter | conj |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 softer | cc |
| 9 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fainter | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 distance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 distance | det |
| 12 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Till | punct |
| 14 | Till | Till | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 distance | appos |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 died | nsubj |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 last | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 died | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the sounds | last | in the distance; faint property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location | |||
| 2 | die away | past | sounds = sound | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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