Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

It was standing still, but empty, But all the wood about it Was full of great black serpents Which from the grass uprising Would look them in the face Then glide away in silence.

Who acts: story, wood, great black serpents · What happens: stand, be, look, glide away · To what, where: serpents, grass uprising, silence

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 (story, wood, great black serpents), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 standing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 standing	aux
3	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 standing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 empty	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 empty	cc
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 standing	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
9	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 full	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wood	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	nsubj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wood	nmod
15	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 full	cop
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 standing	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 serpents	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 serpents	amod
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 serpents	amod
20	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 full	obl
21	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 look	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 uprising	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 uprising	det
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uprising	compound
25	uprising	uprising	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
26	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 look	aux
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 serpents	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 look	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 face	det
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
32	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 glide	advmod
33	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 full	parataxis
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 glide	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 silence	case
36	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 glide	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	story			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	all wood about story				of great black serpents; full property	tree rules
3	look	would	great black serpents	serpents = serpent	the grass uprising		in the face	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
4	glide away	infinitive			silence	then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Trajectory

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 16