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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 30

This mischief-making wizard straightway knew That he was being followed, so he changed Himself into a hooting, snowy owl That wakes the echoes of the forest night.

Who acts: mischief, snowy owl · What happens: make, know, follow, change, wake · To what, where: wizard straightway, That, mischief, hooting, echoes

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 (mischief, snowy owl), 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

detnsubjpunctaclamodobjobjnsubj:passaux:passaux:passacl:relclpunctadvmodnsubjconjobjcasedetoblpunctamodapposnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootThisDETmischiefNOUN-PUNCTmakingVERBwizardADJstraightwayNOUNknewVERBThatPRONhePRONwasAUXbeingAUXfollowedVERB,PUNCTsoADVhePRONchangedVERBHimselfPRONintoADPaDEThootingNOUN,PUNCTsnowyADJowlNOUNThatPRONwakesVERBtheDETechoesNOUNofADPtheDETforestNOUNnightNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 mischiefdet
2mischiefmischiefNOUNNumber=Sing7 knewnsubj
3--PUNCT_4 makingpunct
4makingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger2 mischiefacl
5wizardwizardADJDegree=Pos6 straightwayamod
6straightwaystraightwayNOUNNumber=Sing4 makingobj
7knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 knewobj
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 followednsubj:pass
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 followedaux:pass
11beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 followedaux:pass
12followedfollowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 Thatacl:relcl
13,,PUNCT_16 changedpunct
14sosoADV_16 changedadvmod
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 changednsubj
16changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 knewconj
17HimselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes16 changedobj
18intointoADP_20 hootingcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 hootingdet
20hootinghootingNOUNNumber=Sing16 changedobl
21,,PUNCT_23 owlpunct
22snowysnowyADJDegree=Pos23 owlamod
23owlowlNOUNNumber=Sing20 hootingappos
24ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 wakesnsubj
25wakeswakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 owlacl:relcl
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 echoesdet
27echoesechoNOUNNumber=Plur25 wakesobj
28ofofADP_31 nightcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 nightdet
30forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing31 nightcompound
31nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing27 echoesnmod
32..PUNCT_7 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makegerundthis mischief not said herewizard straightwayvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset straightway=Product
2knowpastthis mischiefThatvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3followpast · passivemischiefvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4changepastmischiefmischiefinto a hooting resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into hooting=Result
5wakepresentsnowy owlthe echoes of the forest nightvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent echo=Patient

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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