Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 94
The angry flies Sharpen their spears; Dip them in poison; Loud was their buzz!
Who acts: angry flies, Loud · What happens: sharpen, dip, be · To what, where: spears, poison, buzz
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 (angry flies, Loud), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flies | det |
| 2 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flies | amod |
| 3 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Sharpen | nsubj |
| 4 | Sharpen | sharpen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Sharpen | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dip | punct |
| 8 | Dip | dip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Sharpen | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Dip | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 poison | case |
| 11 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Dip | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 buzz | punct |
| 13 | Loud | Loud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 buzz | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buzz | cop |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 buzz | nmod:poss |
| 16 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Sharpen | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sharpen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | present | the angry flies | flies's spears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dip | infinitive | the angry flies not said here | spears = spear | poison | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in poison=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Loud | flies's buzz | flies = fly nmod:poss | 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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