Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 86
The demon took a piece of yellow metal from his lips And bent himself to drink and then, restoring to his mouth The metal, spread his spacious wings and, rising, soared away.
Who acts: demon · What happens: take, bend, drink, restore, spread, rise · To what, where: piece, lips, DEMON, metal, mouth, spacious wings
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 (demon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 metal | case |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 metal | amod |
| 8 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lips | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bent | cc |
| 13 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 bent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drink | mark |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bent | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 restoring | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 restoring | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 restoring | punct |
| 20 | restoring | restore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 bent | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mouth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restoring | obl |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 metal | det |
| 25 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 restoring | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spread | punct |
| 27 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wings | amod |
| 30 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 spread | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rising | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rising | punct |
| 33 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 spread | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 soared | punct |
| 35 | soared | soar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 rising | xcomp |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 soared | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the demon | a piece of yellow metal | DEMON's lips | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bend | past | the demon not said here | DEMON | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent himself=Material | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the demon not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | restore | gerund | the demon not said here | the metal | DEMON's mouth | then | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent metal=Theme to mouth=Recipient | ||
| 5 | spread | past | DEMON's spacious wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rise | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | soar away | participle | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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