Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 95

Then, quite beside himself with fear, he fled to thickest wood, And when at length all out of breath and weary with the chase He had to pause, he saw that still a host of snakes was there.

Who acts: E’en, chase, host · What happens: flee, have, pause, see, be · To what, where: thickest wood, chase, length

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 (E’en, chase, host), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 himself	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 himself	punct
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 himself	advmod
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 fled	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 fear	case
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fear	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fled	nsubj
10	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
15	And	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 saw	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 length	appos
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 breath	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 breath	case
22	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 all	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 weary	cc
24	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 breath	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 chase	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chase	det
27	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weary	obl
28	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chase	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pause	mark
31	pause	pause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 length	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fled	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 there	mark
36	still	still	ADV	_	38 host	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 host	det
38	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 there	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 snakes	case
40	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 host	nmod
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 there	cop
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 saw	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	E’en = e'en		thickest wood	with fear	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	have	past	E’en = e'en	the chase not said here			tree rules
3	pause	to-infinitive	the chase not said here				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	E’en = e'en		length		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	a host of snakes			there 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 95