Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 3
Even as he spoke The sweat dropped from him His face grew thin, His feet seemed smaller: “I feel them coming!
Who acts: Fly, sweat, face, feet · What happens: speak, drop, grow, seem, feel, come · To what, where: feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fly, sweat, face, feet), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sweat | det |
| 6 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dropped | nsubj |
| 7 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dropped | obl |
| 10 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dropped | conj |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 15 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | obj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 feel | xcomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Fly | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drop | past | the sweat | from Fly | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Fly's face | thin property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | Fly's feet | small property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel in a quote | present | Fly | feet = foot | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in a quote | gerund | feet = foot not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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