Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 128
Still the far country Went on before her, And something she never Had known came o’er her-- She felt the cold!
Who acts: far country, NIPON, something · What happens: go on, not know, come, feel · To what, where: cold
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 (far country, NIPON, something), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 Went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 3 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 country | amod |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Went | nsubj |
| 5 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 Went | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 came | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 known | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 known | advmod |
| 14 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 known | aux |
| 15 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 something | acl:relcl |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Went | parataxis |
| 17 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 came | conj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 20 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cold | det |
| 23 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the far country | before NIPON; still | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before she=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · perfect | NIPON | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | past | something | NIPON conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | NIPON | the cold | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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