Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 92
Then all of a sudden a creature Too awful to tell of was with him, A wizard of hideous presence Who dropped through the smoke-hole a-shrieking: “Give up to me, youth, thine old uncle I wish to devour his lean flesh.”
Who acts: all, hideous presence · What happens: tell, be, drop, give up, wish, devour · To what, where: smoke hole, youth, all, old uncle, lean flesh · 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 (all, hideous presence), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 him | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 creature | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 5 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 all | nmod |
| 8 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 9 awful | advmod |
| 9 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 awful | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tell | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 him | cop |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wizard | punct |
| 17 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wizard | det |
| 18 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 him | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 presence | case |
| 20 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 presence | amod |
| 21 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wizard | nmod |
| 22 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dropped | nsubj |
| 23 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 presence | acl:relcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 hole | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hole | det |
| 26 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hole | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 smoke | punct |
| 28 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dropped | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 shrieking | det |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 a | punct |
| 31 | shrieking | shrieking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hole | nmod |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Give | punct |
| 34 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 him | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 Give | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Give | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 youth | punct |
| 39 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Give | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 uncle | punct |
| 41 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 uncle | amod |
| 43 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 youth | appos |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 wish | nsubj |
| 45 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 uncle | acl:relcl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 devour | mark |
| 47 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 wish | xcomp |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 49 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 flesh | amod |
| 50 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 devour | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 uncle | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 uncle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | all of a sudden creature not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | all of a sudden creature | with nephew; a wizard of hideous presence conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | hideous presence | the smoke hole a shrieking | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | give up in a quote | infinitive | all of a sudden creature not said here | youth | all of a sudden creature = all | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to i=Recipient | |||
| 5 | wish in a quote | present | all of a sudden creature = all | thine old uncle not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | devour not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | all of a sudden creature = all not said here | nephew's lean flesh | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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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