Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 87
The man perceived that power to fly lay hidden in this charm, And so at once decided he would steal the thing away.
Who acts: man, power · What happens: perceive, fly, lay, hide, decide, steal away · To what, where: charm, thing
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 (man, power), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lay | mark |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 power | acl |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 perceived | advcl |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lay | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 charm | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 charm | det |
| 12 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decided | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 decided | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 decided | mark |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 decided | advmod |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 steal | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 steal | aux |
| 21 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decided | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steal | obj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 steal | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the man | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | power not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | power | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide | participle | power not said here | this charm | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in charm=Location | ||||
| 5 | decide | past | the man not said here | once property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | steal away not said to happen | would | power | the thing | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=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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