Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 40
Straightway the wizard seized and held the bat So close unto the glowing fiery coals That all his filthy, vermin-reeking hair Was clean consumed--then let him fly away, Feeling that vengeance had been wreaked full well.
Who acts: Straightway, Was · What happens: seize, hold, glow, reek, consume, let · To what, where: bat, hair, Was, vengeance
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 (Straightway, Was), 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 | Straightway | Straightway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 held | cc |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bat | det |
| 8 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obj |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 close | advmod |
| 10 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 held | advmod |
| 11 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 15 coals | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coals | det |
| 13 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 coals | amod |
| 14 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 coals | amod |
| 15 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obl |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 his | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 his | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coals | nmod |
| 19 | filthy | filthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 his | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reeking | punct |
| 21 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reeking | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 vermin | punct |
| 23 | reeking | reek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 filthy | advcl |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 consumed | nsubj |
| 26 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 consumed | amod |
| 27 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 reeking | ccomp |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 let | advmod |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 reeking | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 let | obj |
| 32 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 let | xcomp |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 fly | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Feeling | punct |
| 35 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 fly | advcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 wreaked | mark |
| 37 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wreaked | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 wreaked | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 wreaked | aux:pass |
| 40 | wreaked | wreak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 Feeling | ccomp |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 wreaked | xcomp |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 wreaked | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Straightway | the wizard nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Straightway not said here | the bat | unto the glowing fiery coals straightway; close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme | |||
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | reek | gerund | Straightway not said here | vermin compound | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | consume | participle · passive | hair | Was nsubj | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 6 | let | infinitive | Straightway not said here | Was | then | tree rules | |||
| 7 | fly away | infinitive | Was not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | feel | gerund | Was not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | wreak | past · perfect · passive | vengeance | full, well property | tree rules |
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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