Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 132
All was silent, The boughs and the flowers Which covered the wigwam Were yellow and faded: “My child!--my child!
Who acts: All, boughs · What happens: be, cover, fade · To what, where: wigwam, child
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 (All, boughs), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 silent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 silent | cop |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boughs | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boughs | det |
| 6 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 silent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flowers | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowers | det |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boughs | conj |
| 10 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 covered | nsubj |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boughs | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wigwam | det |
| 13 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obj |
| 14 | Were | where | ADV | PronType=Rel Typo=Yes | 15 yellow | advmod |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 covered | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 faded | cc |
| 17 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 20 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 child | nmod:poss |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 faded | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 boughs | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 child | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 child | nmod:poss |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boughs | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | All | the boughs and the flowers and my child obl; silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | the boughs and the flowers and my child | the wigwam | yellow property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wigwam=Destination | |||
| 3 | fade | past | the boughs and the flowers and my child not said here | My child | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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