Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 74
Till suddenly he vomited a mass of serpent skins, And then at last cast up the magic liver from his mouth.
Who acts: boy · What happens: vomit, cast up · To what, where: mass, last cast magic liver
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 (boy), 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 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 vomited | mark |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 vomited | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vomited | nsubj |
| 4 | vomited | vomit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mass | det |
| 6 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vomited | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 skins | case |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skins | compound |
| 9 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mass | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 liver | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 liver | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 liver | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 liver | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 liver | amod |
| 15 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 liver | amod |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 cast | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 liver | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 liver | compound |
| 19 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vomited | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 liver | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vomited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vomit | past | boy | a mass of serpent skins | the last cast magic liver from boy's mouth | suddenly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mass=Theme | ||
| 2 | cast up | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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