Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 140
And then he leapt upon the fiery coals And danced and danced, until his feet did fry And sizzle hot like bacon in a pan.
Who acts: wizard, feet · What happens: leapt, dance, do · To what, where: fry, pan
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 (wizard, feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 leapt | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leapt | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leapt | nsubj |
| 4 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 coals | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coals | det |
| 7 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 coals | amod |
| 8 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leapt | obl |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 danced | cc |
| 10 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leapt | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 danced | cc |
| 12 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 danced | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 did | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 danced | conj |
| 18 | fry | fry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sizzle | cc |
| 20 | sizzle | sizzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fry | conj |
| 21 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fry | amod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 bacon | case |
| 23 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hot | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pan | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pan | det |
| 26 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | past | wizard | then | upon the fiery coals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dance | past | wizard not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | wizard not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | wizard's feet | fry and sizzle | a pan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fry=Eventuality |
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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