Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 61
Then every bird Every small insect, All creeping things Who heard his song, Knew there was coming A beautiful day: “Let us arise!
Who acts: bird, creeping things, small insect, us, thing · What happens: insect, creep, hear, come, let, arise · To what, where: song, us · 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 (bird, creeping things, small insect, us), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 insect | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insect | nsubj |
| 4 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 insect | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 insect | amod |
| 6 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 insect | punct |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det |
| 9 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 was | nsubj |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 song | nmod:poss |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Knew | punct |
| 16 | Knew | Knew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 things | nmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Let | punct |
| 25 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | parataxis |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Let | obj |
| 27 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Let | xcomp |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insect | every bird | then | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hear | past | all creeping things Knew | thing's song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | every small insect | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | arise in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sing | thing | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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