Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 18
There they arrived at night; A great festivity Was stirring all the town, Torches were everywhere, And everywhere the scent Of _mskîkwul wʾli-mhaskil_, Which is the perfumed grass Burning intensely sweet.
Who acts: eyes, great festivity, Torches, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil, perfumed grass · What happens: arrive, stir, be, perfume, burn, scent · To what, where: town, perfumed grass, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil
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 (eyes, great festivity, Torches, mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 arrived | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stirring | punct |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 festivity | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 festivity | amod |
| 9 | festivity | festivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stirring | nsubj |
| 10 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stirring | aux |
| 11 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 town | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 town | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stirring | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 everywhere | punct |
| 16 | Torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 everywhere | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 everywhere | cop |
| 18 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 arrived | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 scent | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 scent | cc |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 scent | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 scent | det |
| 23 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | conj |
| 24 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mhaskil | case |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Of | punct |
| 26 | mskîkwul | mskîkwul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mhaskil | amod |
| 27 | wʾli | wʾli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mhaskil | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wʾli | punct |
| 29 | mhaskil | mhaskil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scent | nmod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 mhaskil | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grass | punct |
| 32 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 grass | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 grass | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 grass | det |
| 35 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 grass | amod |
| 36 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mhaskil | appos |
| 37 | Burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 grass | acl |
| 38 | intensely | intensely | ADV | _ | 39 sweet | advmod |
| 39 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Burning | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | eyes = eye | there | night | the scent of mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | stir | past · progressive | a great festivity | all town | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus town=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Torches | everywhere property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perfume | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil | the perfumed grass | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | burn | gerund | the perfumed grass not said here | sweet property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | scent | mskîkwul wʾli mhaskil | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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