Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 92

While he thought it over his grandson returned Bringing a burden of birds of the forest, And little singers who live by the rivers: And when they were cooked, and the chief had eaten, Down by the fire he lay on a bear skin, Smoking himself into silent sleep.

Who acts: Monimques, grandson, little singers, chief · What happens: think, return, bring, live, cook, eat · To what, where: word, little singers, burden, singers, bear skin, Monimques

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 (Monimques, grandson, little singers, chief), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	3 thought	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grandson	nmod:poss
7	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
9	Bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 returned	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 burden	det
11	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Bringing	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 birds	case
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burden	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 birds	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 singers	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 singers	cc
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 singers	amod
20	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 returned	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 live	nsubj
22	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 singers	acl:relcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 rivers	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rivers	det
25	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 live	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 cooked	punct
27	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 cooked	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 cooked	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cooked	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cooked	aux:pass
31	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eaten	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eaten	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chief	det
35	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eaten	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eaten	aux
37	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 cooked	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Down	punct
39	Down	down	ADV	_	37 eaten	advmod
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 fire	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fire	det
42	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 lay	nsubj
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 eaten	parataxis
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 skin	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 skin	det
47	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 skin	compound
48	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Smoking	punct
50	Smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 lay	advcl
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 Smoking	obj
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 sleep	case
53	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 sleep	amod
54	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Smoking	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Monimques	word			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	return	past	Monimques's grandson	little singers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	gerund	Monimques's grandson not said here	a burden of birds of the forest			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent burden=Theme
4	live	present	little singers			by the rivers	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location
5	cook	past · passive		singers = singer			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	eat	past · perfect	the chief			down property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lie	past	chief		a bear skin	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
8	smoke	gerund	chief not said here	Monimques	silent sleep		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Source
9	burden			birds of the forest			nom burden «cognition 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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 92