Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 89
This time, though, when the demon had alighted, he ran forth, And, snatching up the yellow charm, said, laughingly: “Ha, ha, My friend, do thou lie there a while, and I will fly about!”
Who acts: DEMON, earth · What happens: alight, run, snatch up, say, lie, fly · To what, where: demon, yellow charm · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 alighted | punct |
| 4 | though | though | ADV | _ | 10 alighted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 alighted | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 alighted | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 demon | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 alighted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 alighted | aux |
| 10 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 And | punct |
| 18 | snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 snatching | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 charm | det |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 charm | amod |
| 22 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 snatching | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 snatching | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 laughingly | punct |
| 26 | laughingly | laughingly | ADV | _ | 24 said | advmod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 lie | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 do | punct |
| 29 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 36 do | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ha | punct |
| 31 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 36 do | discourse |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 friend | punct |
| 33 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 friend | punct |
| 36 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 lie | aux |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 do | obj |
| 38 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | parataxis |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 lie | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 while | det |
| 41 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lie | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fly | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fly | cc |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 fly | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 fly | aux |
| 46 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 lie | parataxis |
| 47 | about | about | ADV | _ | 46 fly | advmod |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 46 fly | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | past · perfect · passive | the demon | though property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | DEMON | time | forth property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | snatch up | gerund | the yellow charm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | DEMON not said here | laughingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lie in a quote | infinitive · do-support | there | while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fly in a quote | future | the earth = earth | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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