Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 111
A terrible sight to Muttóntoe, Who leapt with a shriek through the smoke-hole And never returned to that wigwam, Where the youth and his uncle, still living, Dwell happily in the dark forest.
Who acts: terrible sight, youth · What happens: leapt, not return, live, dwell · To what, where: smoke hole, dark forest
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 (terrible sight, youth), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sight | amod |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Muttóntoe | case |
| 5 | Muttóntoe | Muttóntoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leapt | punct |
| 7 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 leapt | nsubj |
| 8 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shriek | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shriek | det |
| 11 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | obl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 hole | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 smoke | punct |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | obl |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 returned | advmod |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leapt | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 wigwam | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wigwam | det |
| 22 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 living | punct |
| 24 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 living | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 youth | det |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 living | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 uncle | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 youth | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 living | punct |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 living | advmod |
| 32 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 wigwam | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Dwell | punct |
| 34 | Dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 living | parataxis |
| 35 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 34 Dwell | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 forest | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 forest | det |
| 38 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 forest | amod |
| 39 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Dwell | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | present | a terrible sight to Muttóntoe | the smoke hole | with a shriek; Who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not return | past | a terrible sight to Muttóntoe not said here | to that wigwam result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wigwam=Result | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | the youth and sight's uncle | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dwell | infinitive | the dark forest | happily property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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