Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 49

His mother saw and straightway feared; began to watch the lad, And marked that when he lay at night no sleep would come to him, But always after little time he’d rise and steal away, Till daylight dawned and then he would come creeping back to bed.

Who acts: mother saw, arrow, sleep · What happens: fear, begin, watch, mark, lie, come · To what, where: lad, arrow, bed

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 (mother saw, arrow, sleep), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 saw	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	compound
3	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feared	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 straightway	cc
5	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	conj
6	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feared	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lad	det
12	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 marked	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 marked	cc
15	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feared	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 lay	mark
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 lay	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 marked	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 sleep	det
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lay	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ’d	punct
29	But	but	CCONJ	_	35 ’d	cc
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 ’d	advmod
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ’d	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 ’d	nsubj
35	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feared	conj
36	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ’d	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 steal	cc
38	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 rise	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 steal	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dawned	punct
41	Till	till	SCONJ	_	43 dawned	mark
42	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dawned	compound
43	dawned	dawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 ’d	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 come	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 come	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 come	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
48	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 dawned	conj
49	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 come	xcomp
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 creeping	advmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 bed	case
52	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 creeping	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	arrow's mother saw and straightway						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	arrow's mother saw and straightway not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	watch	to-infinitive	arrow's mother saw and straightway not said here	the lad					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme
4	mark	past	arrow's mother saw and straightway not said here						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	past	arrow				night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	would	no sleep		arrow				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	have	past	arrow				time	always property	tree rules
8	rise	infinitive	arrow not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	steal away	infinitive	arrow not said here					away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dawn	participle						daylight compound	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	come	would	arrow				then		tree rules
12	creep back	gerund	arrow not said here			bed			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bed=Destination

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 49