Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 100
Then without an instant’s warning All his darkness was turned to daylight, And the Red Wing burst into tears of rapture.
Who acts: Red Wing · What happens: warn, turn, burst · To what, where: darkness, daylight, tears
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red Wing), 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 warning | advmod |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 instant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | obl |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warning | aux |
| 6 | warning | warn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 turned | advcl |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 darkness | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 darkness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 daylight | case |
| 13 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 burst | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 burst | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wing | det |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Wing | flat |
| 18 | Wing | Wing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 burst | nsubj |
| 19 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 tears | case |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 burst | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rapture | case |
| 23 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tears | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present · progressive | then | without a instant | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn | past · passive | Straight's darkness | daylight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to daylight=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | the Red Wing | tears of rapture | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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