Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 95

Dipping her wing in the water she sprayed it Little by little upon the fire; Little by little the fire, like Monimques Sunk to sleep, and the bright red flame Lay down to rest in the dull gray ashes.

Who acts: grandson, bright red flame · What happens: dip, spray, sleep, rest · To what, where: wing, water, fire, dull gray ashes

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 (grandson, bright red flame), 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	Dipping	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sprayed	csubj
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wing	nmod:poss
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dipping	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dipping	obl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sprayed	nsubj
8	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sprayed	obj
10	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sprayed	obl:unmarked
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 little	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Little	obl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprayed	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 Little	punct
17	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sprayed	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Little	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Monimques	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	24 Monimques	case
24	Monimques	Monimques	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sprayed	parataxis
25	Sunk	Sunk	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Monimques	flat
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Monimques	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rest	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rest	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 flame	det
31	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flame	amod
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flame	amod
33	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rest	nsubj
34	Lay	Lay	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 flame	appos
35	down	down	ADV	_	37 rest	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 rest	mark
37	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sprayed	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 ashes	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ashes	det
40	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ashes	amod
41	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ashes	compound
42	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 rest	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sprayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dip	gerund		grandson's wing	the water		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wing=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	spray	past	grandson	wing	the fire	Little obl:unmarked; Monimques parataxis	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon fire=Destination
3	sleep	to-infinitive	grandson not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	the bright red flame		the dull gray ashes	down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ash=Location

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 95