Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 35
In the earliest time on the greatest mountain Lived merry Mĭpis, the Little Leaf; When spring is coming and sunlight is shining He climbs a tree, and there, all summer, Dressed in green he rocks in the branches, Listens all day to the birds and the breezes, And goes to sleep to the song of the owl.
Who acts: spring, sunlight, owl · What happens: live, come, shine, climb, dress, rock · To what, where: merry Mĭpis, tree, green, Listens, branches
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 (spring, sunlight, owl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Lived | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 mountain | amod |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | Lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Mĭpis | amod |
| 11 | Mĭpis | Mĭpis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Leaf | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Leaf | det |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Leaf | amod |
| 15 | Leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mĭpis | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 coming | punct |
| 17 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 coming | advmod |
| 18 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Lived | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shining | cc |
| 22 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shining | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shining | aux |
| 24 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 coming | conj |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 climbs | nsubj |
| 26 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shining | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 climbs | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 there | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 there | cc |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 coming | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 summer | punct |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 summer | det |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Dressed | punct |
| 36 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 coming | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 green | case |
| 38 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Dressed | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 rocks | nsubj |
| 40 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 Dressed | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 branches | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 branches | det |
| 43 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rocks | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Listens | punct |
| 45 | Listens | Listen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 rocks | nmod |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 day | det |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Listens | appos |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 birds | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 birds | det |
| 50 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 day | nmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 breezes | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 breezes | det |
| 53 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 birds | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 goes | punct |
| 55 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 goes | cc |
| 56 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Lived | conj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 sleep | mark |
| 58 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 goes | advcl |
| 59 | to | to | ADP | _ | 61 song | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 song | det |
| 61 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 sleep | obl |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 owl | case |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 owl | det |
| 64 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 song | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | merry Mĭpis | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present · progressive | spring | there | summer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | shine | present · progressive | sunlight | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | climb | present | sunlight | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle | spring not said here | green | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rock | sunlight | Listens | the branches | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | present | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | sleep | to-infinitive | to the song of the owl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | sing | the owl | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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