Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 98
High on the birch-tree Untouched by a foeman-- Sat the watchman-- The flies were victorious!
Who acts: flies · What happens: be
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 (flies), 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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 4 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 birch | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 High | obl |
| 7 | Untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 foeman | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 foeman | det |
| 10 | foeman | foeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Untouched | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sat | punct |
| 12 | Sat | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 foeman | appos |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 watchman | det |
| 14 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sat | appos |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 victorious | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flies | det |
| 17 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 victorious | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 victorious | cop |
| 19 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foeman | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 High | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the flies | victorious property | 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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