Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 58

Thus always at sunset They heard him singing: _Lappilatwan Wappilatwan Wechkutonébit_, “Fair tree-fungus, Fair tree-fungus, Sits with mouth open,” The signal song Unto all wood birds, Worms and insects, To go to sleep; So that all the birds, Little worms, little insects, When they heard _Lappilatwan Wappilatwan_ Knew he was silent For all the night There where he hung In the cold birch tree, Cold, rough and damp, All night, all day!

Who acts: insects, friend, Lappilatwan · What happens: hear, sing, sit, go, be, hang · To what, where: friend, signal song, sleep, cold birch tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (insects, friend, Lappilatwan), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 always	advmod
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 heard	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sunset	case
4	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
5	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 Sits	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Sits	punct
11	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Sits	nsubj
12	Wappilatwan	Wappilatwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lappilatwan	flat
13	Wechkutonébit	Wechkutonébit	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wappilatwan	flat
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Lappilatwan	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fungus	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 fungus	punct
17	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fungus	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fungus	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 tree	punct
20	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Lappilatwan	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fungus	punct
22	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fungus	amod
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fungus	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 tree	punct
25	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fungus	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Lappilatwan	punct
27	Sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Sits	obl
30	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Sits	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Sits	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 Sits	punct
33	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 song	det
34	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 song	compound
35	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Sits	obj
36	Unto	unto	ADP	_	39 birds	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 birds	det
38	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 birds	compound
39	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 song	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Worms	punct
41	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 birds	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 insects	cc
43	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 birds	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
45	To	to	PART	_	46 go	mark
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Sits	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 sleep	case
48	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 go	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 birds	punct
50	So	so	ADV	_	54 birds	advmod
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 birds	mark
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 birds	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 birds	det
54	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 worms	punct
56	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 worms	amod
57	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 birds	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 insects	punct
59	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 insects	amod
60	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 birds	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 heard	punct
62	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	64 heard	advmod
63	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 heard	nsubj
64	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 birds	parataxis
65	_	_	PUNCT	_	66 Lappilatwan	punct
66	Lappilatwan	Lappilatwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 silent	nsubj
67	Wappilatwan	Wappilatwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Lappilatwan	flat
68	_	_	PUNCT	_	69 Knew	punct
69	Knew	Knew	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 Lappilatwan	conj
70	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 silent	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 silent	cop
72	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 heard	ccomp
73	For	for	ADP	_	76 night	case
74	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	76 night	det:predet
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 night	det
76	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 silent	obl
77	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	80 hung	expl
78	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	80 hung	advmod
79	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 hung	nsubj
80	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	76 night	acl:relcl
81	In	in	ADP	_	85 tree	case
82	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 tree	det
83	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 tree	amod
84	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 tree	compound
85	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 hung	obl
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 Cold	punct
87	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 tree	amod
88	,	,	PUNCT	_	89 rough	punct
89	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	87 Cold	conj
90	and	and	CCONJ	_	91 damp	cc
91	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	87 Cold	conj
92	,	,	PUNCT	_	94 night	punct
93	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	94 night	det
94	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 tree	conj
95	,	,	PUNCT	_	97 day	punct
96	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	97 day	det
97	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 birds	conj
98	!	!	PUNCT	_	54 birds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	insects = insect	friend		sunset	all birds and Little worms and little insects and all day parataxis; always property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	friend not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit in a quote	present	Lappilatwan	the signal song			with mouth; unto all wood birds and Worms and insects; open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	Lappilatwan not said here		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5	hear	past	insects = insect					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Lappilatwan and Knew			night	LAPPILATWAN nsubj; silent property	tree rules
7	hang	past	LAPPILATWAN		the cold birch tree and all night; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 58