Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 107
At the dead hour of midnight Once more in the midst of the wigwam The monster dropped down through the smoke-hole.
Who acts: monster · What happens: drop down · To what, where: midst
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hour | amod |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | nmod |
| 7 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 dropped | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 dropped | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 midst | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 midst | det |
| 11 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wigwam | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wigwam | det |
| 14 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 midst | nmod |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monster | det |
| 16 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | nsubj |
| 17 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 dropped | compound:prt |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 21 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hole | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 smoke | punct |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop down | past | the monster | the midst of the wigwam | hour | through the smoke hole; once property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in midst=Destination through hole=Initial_Location |
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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