Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 28
Shrivelled and dried as she fell, Then dropped to powder--“She Will trouble you no more.”
Who acts: powder, you · What happens: shrivell, dry, fall, drop, powder, trouble · To what, where: more
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 (powder, you), 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 | Shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dropped | parataxis |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dried | cc |
| 3 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Shrivelled | conj |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 fell | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dried | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
| 8 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 dropped | advmod |
| 9 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 powder | mark |
| 11 | powder | powder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dropped | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 trouble | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 trouble | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trouble | nsubj |
| 15 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 trouble | aux |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 powder | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 no | nsubj |
| 18 | no | no | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 no | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrivell | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | powder | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drop | past | then | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | powder | to-infinitive | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | trouble in a quote | future | powder | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | no in a quote | present | you | more | tree rules |
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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