Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 59
He is always trying To blow the leaves away from the branches, And drives them headlong, in flocks together, To his grandfather the terrible Tempest, The great wild Whirlwind who kills them all.”
Who acts: boy · What happens: try, blow, drive, kill · To what, where: leaves, branches, flocks
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 trying | advmod |
| 4 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | To | to | PART | _ | 6 blow | mark |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trying | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leaves | det |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blow | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 blow | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 branches | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 away | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drives | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drives | cc |
| 15 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trying | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drives | obj |
| 17 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drives | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flocks | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 flocks | case |
| 20 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drives | obl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 drives | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grandfather | punct |
| 23 | To | to | ADP | _ | 25 grandfather | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drives | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tempest | det |
| 27 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Tempest | amod |
| 28 | Tempest | Tempest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 grandfather | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wild | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wild | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wild | amod |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Tempest | amod |
| 33 | Whirlwind | whirlwind | SCONJ | _ | 35 kills | mark |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 kills | nsubj |
| 35 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 wild | advcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kills | obj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | boy | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | blow not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the leaves | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 3 | drive | present | boy not said here | branches = branch | flocks | to boy's grandfather the terrible Tempest; headlong, together property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in flock=Destination to grandfather=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | kill | present | branches = branch | who nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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