Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 63

When I was fifteen years I saw a man Who had become a demon of the wood, A Miʿkumwess with power to change his size And art to sink into the rocky soil Up to his ankle-joints or knees as though ’twere sand.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, see, become, change, sink · To what, where: fifteen years, man, demon, size, ’, rocky soil

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 (I, man), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saw	parataxis
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 become	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 demon	det
14	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 demon	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Miʿkumwess	punct
19	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Miʿkumwess	det
20	Miʿkumwess	miʿkumwess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 demon	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 power	case
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Miʿkumwess	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 change	mark
24	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Miʿkumwess	acl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 size	nmod:poss
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 change	obj
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 art	cc
28	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 size	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sink	mark
30	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 change	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 soil	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soil	det
33	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 soil	amod
34	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sink	obl
35	Up	up	ADP	_	40 joints	case
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 Up	fixed
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 joints	nmod:poss
38	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 joints	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 ankle	punct
40	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sink	obl
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 knees	cc
42	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 joints	conj
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 though	advmod
44	though	though	ADV	_	30 sink	advmod
45	’	'	X	_	30 sink	obj
46	twere	twere	X	_	45 ’	goeswith
47	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ’	flat
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	fifteen years			tree rules
2	see	past	I	a man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect	a man	a demon of the wood and a Miʿkumwess with power			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	change	to-infinitive	a man not said here	Lacote's size and art			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient
5	sink	to-infinitive	a man not said here	’	the rocky soil	up Lacote's ankle joints or knees; though property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent '=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 63