Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 38
Merry Mĭpis on a bright May morning Was stretching himself in the warm sunshine When he heard afar a wonderful music, A sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden, Rippling melodies melting in one.
Who acts: bright May morning, Mĭpis, maiden Rippling melodies · What happens: stretch, hear, ripple, melt · To what, where: Mĭpis, wonderful music, Merry
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 (bright May morning, Mĭpis, maiden Rippling melodies), 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 | Merry | Merry | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Mĭpis | Mĭpis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Merry | flat |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 6 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 morning | compound |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Merry | nmod |
| 8 | Was | was | SCONJ | _ | 9 stretching | mark |
| 9 | stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 morning | acl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 stretching | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sunshine | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sunshine | det |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sunshine | amod |
| 14 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stretching | obl |
| 15 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stretching | advcl |
| 18 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heard | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 music | det |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 music | amod |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sound | punct |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sound | det |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 music | conj |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 flute | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 flute | det |
| 27 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sound | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 voice | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flute | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 melodies | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 melodies | det |
| 33 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 melodies | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Rippling | punct |
| 35 | Rippling | ripple | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 melodies | amod |
| 36 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 voice | nmod |
| 37 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 melodies | acl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 one | case |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 melting | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Merry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | gerund | a bright May morning not said here | Mĭpis | in the warm sunshine | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in sunshine=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Mĭpis | a wonderful music and a sound like a flute and the voice of a maiden Rippling melodies | afar property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ripple | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | melt | gerund | a maiden Rippling melodies not said here | in one | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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