Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 93

No sooner had the hapless wight these eye-rings in his hands, Than every kind of snake and beast that roam the northern woods Surrounded him, till, terrified, he rushed to his canoe.

Who acts: kind, man · What happens: have, roam, surround, rush · To what, where: hapless wight, northern woods, man, canoe

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 (kind, man), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wight	det
5	hapless	hapless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wight	amod
6	wight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 rings	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rings	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 eye	punct
10	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rings	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Than	punct
15	Than	Than	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 kind	det
17	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Surrounded	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 snake	case
19	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kind	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beast	cc
21	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 snake	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 roam	nsubj
23	roam	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kind	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woods	det
25	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woods	amod
26	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 roam	obj
27	Surrounded	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Surrounded	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 terrified	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 terrified	mark
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 terrified	punct
32	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Surrounded	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rushed	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rushed	nsubj
35	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 terrified	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 canoe	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 canoe	nmod:poss
38	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rushed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past		the hapless wight		Than obl; this eye rings obj; soon property	tree rules
2	roam	present	every kind of snake and beast	the northern woods			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory
3	surround	past	every kind of snake and beast	man			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	rush	past	man		man's canoe		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to canoe=Destination

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 93