Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 39
When he was sitting by the fire that night An evil bat of monstrous size flew forth From underneath the shanty’s sloping roof.
Who acts: nephew · What happens: sit, fly, slope · To what, where: evil bat, roof
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 (nephew), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 sitting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 flew | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bat | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bat | amod |
| 12 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 size | case |
| 14 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 size | amod |
| 15 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bat | nmod |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | From | from | ADP | _ | 21 shanty | case |
| 19 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 21 shanty | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shanty | det |
| 21 | shanty | shanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ’s | obl |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 23 | sloping | slope | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 ’s | xcomp |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sloping | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | nephew | a evil bat of monstrous size | night | by the fire | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme by fire=Location | ||
| 2 | fly | past | forth property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slope | gerund | roof | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roof=Theme |
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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