Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 47
Beautiful Squʿtes, never heeding What the Leaf thought, began to warble; Pouring out in the pleasant sunshine Her morning song.
Who acts: Beautiful Squʿtes, Leaf, Squʿtes · What happens: not heed, think, begin, warble, pour out, sing · To what, where: Beautiful Squʿtes, morning song, pleasant sunshine
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 (Beautiful Squʿtes, Leaf, Squʿtes), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Squʿtes | amod |
| 2 | Squʿtes | squʿte | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heeding | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heeding | advmod |
| 5 | heeding | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Squʿtes | acl |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 heeding | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Leaf | det |
| 8 | Leaf | Leaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 What | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Squʿtes | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 warble | mark |
| 13 | warble | warble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Pouring | punct |
| 15 | Pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 began | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 Pouring | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sunshine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sunshine | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sunshine | amod |
| 20 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Pouring | obl |
| 21 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 song | nmod:poss |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 song | compound |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Pouring | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | gerund | Beautiful Squʿtes not said here | Beautiful Squʿtes | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Leaf | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Beautiful Squʿtes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | warble | to-infinitive | Beautiful Squʿtes not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pour out | gerund | Beautiful Squʿtes not said here | Squʿtes's morning song | the pleasant sunshine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | |||
| 6 | sing | Squʿtes | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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