Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 92

Soaring aloft the Pʾmûla at once was lost to view But after a brief period returned and gave the man The two great eye-rings of a snake, and once again was gone.

Who acts: Soaring · What happens: soar, lose, view, return, give, be · To what, where: Pʾmûla, man

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 (Soaring), 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	Soaring	soar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lost	csubj:pass
2	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Soaring	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pʾmûla	det
4	Pʾmûla	Pʾmûla	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Soaring	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Soaring	obl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 view	mark
10	view	view	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lost	xcomp
11	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 returned	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 period	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 period	det
14	brief	brief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 period	compound
15	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returned	obl
16	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 returned	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rings	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 rings	nummod
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rings	amod
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rings	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 eye	punct
26	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 man	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 snake	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 snake	det
29	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rings	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gone	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gone	cc
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 again	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	35 gone	advmod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	cop
35	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 returned	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	soar	gerund		the Pʾmûla		aloft property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme pʾmûla=Result
2	lose	past · passive	Soaring				tree rules
3	view	to-infinitive	Soaring not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	return	past	Soaring not said here		after a brief period		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	Soaring not said here	the man the two great eye rings of a snake			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
6	is	past	Soaring not said here		again	gone property	tree rules

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 92