Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 39
Never before had he heard such singing; Then looking up he beheld before him A beautiful merry little bird-girl, Dressed in garments of brilliant scarlet, Just like his own in the Indian Summer.
Who acts: Mĭpis · What happens: not have, hear, sing, look up, behold, dress · To what, where: beautiful merry little bird girl, garments
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 (Mĭpis), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 singing | amod |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 9 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 looking | advmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | parataxis |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | obl |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 girl | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dressed | punct |
| 24 | Dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 girl | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 garments | case |
| 26 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Dressed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 scarlet | case |
| 28 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 scarlet | amod |
| 29 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 garments | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 own | punct |
| 31 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 34 own | advmod |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 own | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 own | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Dressed | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Summer | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Summer | det |
| 37 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Summer | amod |
| 38 | Summer | Summer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 own | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Mĭpis | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Mĭpis not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look up | gerund | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | behold | past | Mĭpis | a beautiful merry little bird girl | before Merry | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | dress | participle | a beautiful merry little bird girl not said here | garments of brilliant scarlet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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