Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 58

Even worse is another foeman, A dreadful little boy who is flying All the time over rivers and valleys, Aplasemwesit, the Little Whirlwind, Who never rests.

Who acts: dreadful little boy, Aplasemwesit · What happens: be, fly, not rest · To what, where: worse foeman, rivers

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 (dreadful little boy, Aplasemwesit), 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	Even	even	ADV	_	2 worse	advmod
2	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 foeman	amod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 foeman	cop
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 foeman	det
5	foeman	foeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boy	punct
7	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foeman	appos
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 flying	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 flying	aux
13	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 boy	acl:relcl
14	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flying	obl:unmarked
17	over	over	ADP	_	18 rivers	case
18	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flying	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 valleys	cc
20	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rivers	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Aplasemwesit	punct
22	Aplasemwesit	Aplasemwesit	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 rests	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Whirlwind	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Whirlwind	det
25	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Whirlwind	amod
26	Whirlwind	Whirlwind	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Aplasemwesit	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rests	punct
28	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 rests	nsubj
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 rests	advmod
30	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rivers	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 foeman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		another worse foeman			a dreadful little boy appos	tree rules
2	fly	present · progressive	a dreadful little boy		rivers and valleys	time		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over river=Location
3	not rest	present	Aplasemwesit and the Little Whirlwind				rivers and valleys nsubj	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 58