Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 62

Then came the sound of some one walking heavily and hard, The old man looked and saw a Thing of horror at his door, Large eyes, short arms, short body and long legs of insect shape.

Who acts: one, old man · What happens: come, walk, look, see · To what, where: sound, Thing, door

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 (one, old man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 one	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod
8	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 one	acl
9	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	8 walking	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hard	cc
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heavily	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Thing	det
20	Thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 horror	case
22	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Thing	nmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 door	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 door	nmod:poss
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eyes	punct
27	Large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eyes	amod
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arms	punct
30	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 arms	amod
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eyes	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 body	punct
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 body	amod
34	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eyes	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 legs	cc
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 legs	amod
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 body	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 shape	case
39	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shape	compound
40	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 legs	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		the sound of some one		then	Large eyes and short arms and short body and long legs of insect shape obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme
2	walk	gerund	some one not said here				heavily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	the old man					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past		a Thing of horror	man's door			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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 62

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 62