Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 167
The Iroquois then rose And danced around the fire Thinking in hideous glee Of how when morrow came They’d torture all their foes.
Who acts: Iroquois, morrow, glee · What happens: rise, dance, think, come, torture · To what, where: fire, hideous glee, foes
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 (Iroquois, morrow, glee), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Iroquois | det |
| 2 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 rose | advmod |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 danced | cc |
| 6 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 danced | obl |
| 10 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 danced | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 glee | case |
| 12 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glee | amod |
| 13 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Thinking | obl |
| 14 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 torture | mark |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 torture | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 torture | advcl |
| 19 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 torture | nsubj |
| 20 | ’d | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 torture | aux |
| 21 | torture | torture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glee | acl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 foes | det:predet |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 foes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 torture | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the Iroquois | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | the Iroquois not said here | the fire | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the Iroquois not said here | hideous glee | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | torture | would | glee | glee's foes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foe=Experiencer |
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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