Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 26
The other wizard straightway came along And, ruthless, snapped these deadfalls every one, To irritate his fellow wizard’s heart.
Who acts: other wizard straightway · What happens: come along, snap, irritate · To what, where: deadfalls, heart
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 (other wizard straightway), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 straightway | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 straightway | amod |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 straightway | amod |
| 4 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ruthless | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ruthless | punct |
| 9 | ruthless | ruthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 snapped | punct |
| 11 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 deadfalls | det |
| 13 | deadfalls | deadfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 snapped | obj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snapped | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 irritate | punct |
| 17 | To | to | PART | _ | 18 irritate | mark |
| 18 | irritate | irritate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 snapped | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wizard | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wizard | amod |
| 21 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 wizard | case |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 irritate | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | the other wizard straightway | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | snap | past | this deadfalls | every one obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent deadfall=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 3 | irritate | to-infinitive | straightway's fellow wizard's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
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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