Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 14
Old she was, old As she bore from the North In her white hair The hue of its snows, In her tottering weakness Its chilling frosts.
Who acts: Weary, hue · What happens: be, bear, totter, snow · To what, where: hue, North
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 (Weary, hue), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Old | conj |
| 6 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bore | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bore | nsubj |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 North | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 North | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obl |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obl |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hue | det |
| 17 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 snows | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 snows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hue | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 weakness | punct |
| 22 | In | in | ADP | _ | 25 weakness | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tottering | totter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 weakness | amod |
| 25 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | parataxis |
| 26 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 frosts | nmod:poss |
| 27 | chilling | chilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 frosts | compound |
| 28 | frosts | frost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 weakness | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Weary | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | Weary | the hue of hue's snows | the North | in Weary's white hair; Weary's tottering weakness hue's chilling frosts parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hue=Patient | ||
| 3 | totter | gerund | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | snow | hue | nom snow «phenomenon 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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