Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 111

When morning dawned he thought he saw his mother drawing near And, rushing to her side, he held her fast in firm embrace.

Who acts: lad, mother · What happens: dawn, think, see, draw, rush, hold · To what, where: mother, firm embrace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 dawned	advmod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dawned	obl:unmarked
3	dawned	dawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mother	acl
11	near	near	ADV	_	10 drawing	advmod
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushing	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushing	punct
14	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 drawing	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 side	nmod:poss
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 held	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 embrace	case
24	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 embrace	amod
25	embrace	embrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	past	lad not said here			morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	lad					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past	lad	lad's mother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
4	draw	gerund	lad's mother not said here				near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rush	gerund	lad's mother not said here				to mother's side result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result
6	hold	past	lad	mother	firm embrace		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in embrace=Location

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 14, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 111