Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 13
When they returned they found her White as a silver lily: Her Indian hue had faded; And soon she gave birth to offspring But her children all were serpents.
Who acts: furs, Indian hue, hue, children · What happens: return, find, fade, give, be · To what, where: silver lily, birth, offspring, serpents
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 (furs, Indian hue, hue, children), 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 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 White | nmod:poss |
| 7 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 lily | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lily | det |
| 10 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lily | amod |
| 11 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 White | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 faded | punct |
| 13 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hue | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hue | amod |
| 15 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 faded | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 faded | aux |
| 17 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 lily | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 gave | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 23 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 offspring | case |
| 25 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 26 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 serpents | cc |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 children | nmod:poss |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 serpents | nsubj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 serpents | advmod |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 serpents | cop |
| 31 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gave | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | furs = fur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | furs = fur | white property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fade | past · perfect | wife's Indian hue | a silver lily not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lily=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | hue | birth | offspring | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to offspring=Recipient | ||
| 5 | is a | past | wife's children | serpents | all property | 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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