Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 1
It came in all its horrors, Its eyes were like deep red fire, Its horns rose sharp and high.
Who acts: It, eyes, horns · What happens: come, be, rise · To what, where: horrors
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, eyes, horns), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 horrors | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 horrors | det:predet |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horrors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 8 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fire | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fire | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fire | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fire | amod |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horrors | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 16 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horns | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rose | nsubj |
| 18 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 19 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rose | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 high | cc |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sharp | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | It | its horrors | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horror=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Its eyes | like deep red fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | fire's horns | sharp property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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