Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 42
When I fly in the forest And meet in my way a bar of sunshine, I look as I enter and leave the shadow Like a red flame which leaps up in darkness, And then falls asleep in the night again.
Who acts: I, red flame · What happens: fly, meet, look, enter, leave, leap up · To what, where: forest, way, shadow, darkness
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 (I, red flame), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 fly | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | obl |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 meet | cc |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bar | det |
| 13 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bar | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 look | nsubj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 enter | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 enter | nsubj |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leave | cc |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shadow | det |
| 25 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obj |
| 26 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 29 flame | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flame | det |
| 28 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flame | amod |
| 29 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 leaps | nsubj |
| 31 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 flame | acl:relcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 leaps | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 darkness | case |
| 34 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaps | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 falls | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 falls | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 falls | advmod |
| 38 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 39 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 falls | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 night | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 falls | obl |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 falls | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | I | the forest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | I not said here | my way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | enter | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | present | I not said here | the shadow | like a red flame | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme | |||
| 6 | leap up | present | a red flame | darkness | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | fall | present | I not said here | then; again; night | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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