Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 15
Many moons passed, Still she travelled; The sun grew warmer, Days and shadows Were ever longer; The air was softer; Greener and greener Grew the mountains; Freer from ice Rivers were rushing; Lakes were shining In the sunlight; Flowers were unfolding To the warm breezes.
Who acts: Weary, sun, air, Greener, Rivers, Lakes · What happens: pass, travel, grow, be, mountain, rush · To what, where: Many moons, ice, Days, sunlight
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, sun, air, Greener), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moons | amod |
| 2 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 travelled | punct |
| 5 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 7 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 travelled | nsubj |
| 7 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 12 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Days | punct |
| 14 | Days | Day | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shadows | cc |
| 16 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Days | conj |
| 17 | Were | Were | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 longer | nsubj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 shadows | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 softer | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 softer | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 softer | cop |
| 24 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 grew | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 mountains | punct |
| 26 | Greener | Greener | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 mountains | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Grew | cc |
| 28 | greener | green | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 Grew | amod |
| 29 | Grew | Grew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Greener | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mountains | det |
| 31 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grew | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 Freer | punct |
| 33 | Freer | Freer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 ice | case |
| 35 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 36 | Rivers | Rivers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 rushing | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 rushing | aux |
| 38 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 ice | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 shining | punct |
| 40 | Lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 shining | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 shining | aux |
| 42 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | conj |
| 43 | In | in | ADP | _ | 45 sunlight | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sunlight | det |
| 45 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shining | obl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 unfolding | punct |
| 47 | Flowers | Flower | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 unfolding | nsubj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 unfolding | aux |
| 49 | unfolding | unfold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | advcl |
| 50 | To | to | ADP | _ | 53 breezes | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 breezes | det |
| 52 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 breezes | amod |
| 53 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 unfolding | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle · passive | Many moons | ice | Freer obl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from ice=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | travel | past | Weary | still | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the sun | Days and shadows | warm property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | the air | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mountain | Greener and greener Grew | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | rush | past · progressive | Rivers | ice not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ice=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | shine | past · progressive | Lakes | the sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location | ||||
| 8 | unfold | past · progressive | Flowers | to the warm breezes result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to breeze=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/17/15/