Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 97
So, raising up a heavy stone, he laid them safe beneath.
Who acts: E’en · What happens: raise up, lay · To what, where: heavy stone, rings
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 laid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 laid | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 raising | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raising | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 raising | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | obj |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laid | xcomp |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 10 laid | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise up | gerund | E’en = e'en not said here | a heavy stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | E’en = e'en | rings = ring | beneath, safe property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
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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