Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 73
Greatly the Storm Chief fears the Mountain Who stops the wind in its wildest flight.
Who acts: Storm Chief, Mountain · What happens: fear, stop · To what, where: Mountain, wind, wildest flight
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 (Storm Chief, Mountain), 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 | Greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 fears | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Chief | det |
| 3 | Storm | Storm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chief | compound |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fears | nsubj |
| 5 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mountain | det |
| 7 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fears | obj |
| 8 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Mountain | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stops | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 flight | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 flight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wildest | wild | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 flight | amod |
| 15 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stops | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | the Storm Chief | the Mountain | greatly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mountain=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stop | present | the Mountain | the wind | care's wildest flight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wind=Eventuality |
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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