Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 93
The door was closed, nor was there a crevice Through which the Red Bird could creep to freedom When all at once she thought of the opening Through which the smoke from the fire ascended Ever upward so densely pouring Nobody deemed she would dare to pass it.
Who acts: Red Bird, grandson, smoke, Nobody · What happens: close, be, creep, think, ascend, pour · To what, where: door, crevice, all, opening, smoke
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 (Red Bird, grandson, smoke, Nobody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 closed | aux:pass |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crevice | punct |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 crevice | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crevice | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 crevice | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crevice | det |
| 10 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closed | advcl |
| 11 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 creep | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bird | det |
| 14 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bird | flat |
| 15 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 creep | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 creep | aux |
| 17 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 crevice | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 freedom | case |
| 19 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creep | obl |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 all | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 creep | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 thought | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 creep | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 opening | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 opening | det |
| 28 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thought | obl |
| 29 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 ascended | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 smoke | det |
| 32 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ascended | nsubj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 fire | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 fire | det |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smoke | nmod |
| 36 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 opening | acl:relcl |
| 37 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 upward | advmod |
| 38 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 36 ascended | advmod |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 pouring | advmod |
| 40 | densely | densely | ADV | _ | 41 pouring | advmod |
| 41 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 ascended | advcl |
| 42 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 43 deemed | nsubj |
| 43 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 pouring | ccomp |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 dare | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 dare | aux |
| 46 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 deemed | ccomp |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 pass | mark |
| 48 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 dare | xcomp |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 pass | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past · passive | the door | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a crevice | there | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep | could | the Red Bird | all | a crevice | to freedom | tree rules | ||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | grandson | of the opening | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ascend | past | the smoke from the fire | the opening | ever | upward property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | pour | gerund | the smoke from the fire not said here | densely property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | deem | past | Nobody | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | dare | would | grandson | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | pass | to-infinitive | grandson not said here | smoke | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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