Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

Then over them all was silence, Till a wonder came to pass; For all the beasts, who, before Had spoken but one common language, Now talked in different tongues; Each with a tongue of his own Understood the others no more.

Who acts: silence, tongue, others · What happens: be, come, pass, speak, talk, understand · To what, where: silence, beasts, one common language, different tongues, more · 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 (silence, tongue, others), 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	11 came	advmod
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 silence	det
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 silence	cop
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wonder	punct
8	Till	till	ADP	_	10 wonder	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wonder	det
10	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silence	appos
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pass	mark
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beasts	punct
15	For	for	ADP	_	18 beasts	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 beasts	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beasts	det
18	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 came	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoken	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 spoken	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoken	punct
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 spoken	mark
23	Had	Had	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 spoken	nsubj:pass
24	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 beasts	parataxis
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 language	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 language	nummod
27	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 language	amod
28	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoken	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 talked	punct
30	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 talked	advmod
31	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 language	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 tongues	case
33	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tongues	amod
34	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 talked	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 Understood	punct
36	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 tongue	det
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 tongue	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 tongue	det
39	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Understood	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 own	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 own	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 tongue	nmod
43	Understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 others	det
45	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 no	nsubj
46	no	no	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 Understood	ccomp
47	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 no	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		all silence			a wonder appos	tree rules
2	come	past	all silence			then	over sounds = sound; all beasts parataxis	tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	all silence not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	participle · passive		all beasts			Had nsubj:pass; one common language conj	tree rules
5	talk	participle		one common language not said here	different tongues	now		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	understand	past	each tongue of tongue's own					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	no	present	the others	more				tree rules

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 65