Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 73
In awful agony the boy lay stretched upon the earth Retching and crying out as one who soon must breathe his last.
Who acts: earth · What happens: stretch, retch, cry out, breathe · To what, where: boy, last
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 (earth), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 agony | case |
| 2 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 agony | amod |
| 3 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stretched | aux:pass |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 11 | Retching | retch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 earth | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crying | cc |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Retching | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 crying | compound:prt |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stretched | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 breathe | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 breathe | advmod |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 breathe | aux |
| 20 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 last | nmod:poss |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breathe | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past · passive | the boy | upon the earth; as one; in awful agony | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in agony=Topic | ||||
| 2 | retch | gerund | the earth not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | gerund | the earth not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | breathe | must | boy's last | who nsubj; soon property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme |
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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