Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 97
As she went flying over the forest, Leaving death behind, with love before her, She had never been half so happy.
Who acts: Heard · What happens: go, fly, leave, not be · To what, where: forest, death, half
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 (Heard), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 half | advcl |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leaving | punct |
| 9 | Leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 flying | conj |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leaving | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 9 Leaving | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leaving | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Leaving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 18 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 half | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 half | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 half | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 half | cop |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 half | amod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 half | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Heard | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | Heard not said here | the forest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Heard not said here | death | before Heard | with love; behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent death=Theme before she=Location | ||
| 4 | not is a | past · perfect | Heard | half | tree rules |
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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