Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 91

That night, long after their supper, The youth sat him down by the fire, On the further side of the fire,[58] And waited to see what was coming.

Who acts: youth · What happens: sit down, wait, see, come · To what, where: nephew, further side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 supper	punct
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 supper	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 supper	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 supper	nmod:poss
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 side	punct
18	On	on	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 side	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 58	punct
26	[	[	PUNCT	_	27 58	punct
27	58	58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 sat	obl
28	]	]	PUNCT	_	27 58	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	30 waited	cc
30	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 waited	advcl
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 coming	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 coming	aux
35	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 see	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the youth	nephew	the further side of the fire	night	by the fire; 58 obl	tree rules
2	wait	past	the youth not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	the youth not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come	past · progressive					what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 91

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 91