Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 4

She went and sat by the shore; Then rose afar in the water What seemed to his sight to be A shining flake of ice, But when it came to the shore ’Twas a tall and slender man All clad, as it seemed, in silver.

Who acts: She, ice, it, his · What happens: go, sit, rise, seem, shine, be · To what, where: water, shining flake, clad, silver

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 (She, ice, it, his), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 shore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
9	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 rose	advmod
10	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rose	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rose	obl
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rose	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod:poss
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	24 flake	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 flake	cop
22	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 flake	det
23	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 flake	amod
24	flake	flake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 ice	case
26	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flake	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
28	But	but	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 came	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 shore	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shore	det
34	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clad	obl
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 shore	punct
36	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 clad	nsubj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
38	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 man	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 slender	cc
40	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tall	conj
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clad	nsubj
42	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 clad	advmod
43	clad	clad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 came	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 seemed	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 seemed	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 seemed	nsubj
47	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 clad	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 silver	punct
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 silver	case
50	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 seemed	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	She not said here				by the shore	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shore=Location
3	rise	past	She not said here		the water	then	afar property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
4	seem	past					to his sight; What nsubj	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	to-infinitive		a shining flake			of ice	tree rules
7	come	past	ice	clad to the shore Twas a tall man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	seem	past	it	silver				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme silver=Attribute
9	sight		his = he					nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 4