Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 43
Awestruck, the hunter at the hour appointed sought once more To hear the mystic tones which came to him he knew not whence.
Who acts: mystic tones, Awestruck · What happens: seek, hear, come, not know · To what, where: Awestruck, mystic tones
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 (mystic tones, Awestruck), 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 | Awestruck | Awestruck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunter | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunter | det |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Awestruck | appos |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunter | nmod |
| 8 | appointed | appoint | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sought | aux:pass |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 sought | advmod |
| 12 | To | to | PART | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sought | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tones | det |
| 15 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tones | amod |
| 16 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hear | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tones | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | parataxis |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 knew | advmod |
| 24 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 knew | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · passive | Awestruck | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the mystic tones | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the mystic tones | Awestruck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not know | past | Awestruck | whence property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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