Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 32
At last the injured wizard in despair Went to consult his uncle in the glade Where hang the alders drooping by the stream.
Who acts: alders · What happens: injure, go, consult, hang, droop · To what, where: uncle, glade, alders
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 (alders), 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 | _ | 5 wizard | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wizard | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wizard | det |
| 4 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wizard | amod |
| 5 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Went | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 despair | case |
| 7 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wizard | nmod |
| 8 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 consult | mark |
| 10 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Went | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consult | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 glade | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 glade | det |
| 15 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consult | obl |
| 16 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 hang | advmod |
| 17 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 glade | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 alders | det |
| 19 | alders | alder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hang | obj |
| 20 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 alders | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 stream | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stream | det |
| 23 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drooping | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | injure | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | at the last injured wizard in despair | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | mischief's uncle | the glade | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | infinitive | the alders | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alder=Patient | |||||
| 5 | droop | gerund | the alders not said here | by the stream | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=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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