Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 80
He lived in sorrow, And when the notes of a bird came ringing Out of the forest, his grief was greater; His life was gone with the Little Fire, And the fire of his life was all in ashes.
Who acts: LEAF, notes, grief, life, fire · What happens: live, come, ring out, be, note, fire · To what, where: sorrow, forest, ashes, bird, life
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 (LEAF, notes, grief, life), 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 | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sorrow | case |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 notes | det |
| 9 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 notes | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 14 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 15 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ringing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 greater | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grief | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 greater | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 greater | cop |
| 23 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 ringing | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 gone | punct |
| 25 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | cop |
| 28 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 Fire | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fire | det |
| 31 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Fire | amod |
| 32 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 gone | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ashes | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ashes | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fire | det |
| 36 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ashes | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 life | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 life | nmod:poss |
| 39 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fire | nmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 ashes | cop |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 ashes | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 ashes | case |
| 43 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gone | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | LEAF | sorrow | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sorrow=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the notes of a bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ring out | gerund | the notes of a bird not said here | the forest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | LEAF's grief | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | LEAF's life | with the Little Fire; gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the fire of LEAF's life | ashes | all property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | note | a bird | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | fire | LEAF's life | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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