Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 140
He never had seen the like, And at first was in a fright, But the man, putting down the house, Burst into a fit of laughter, And shook him by the hand, Seeming in faith to be A downright honest fellow.
Who acts: game, man · What happens: not see, be, put down, shake, seem · To what, where: fright, house, fit, game, downright honest fellow
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, man), 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 | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 seen | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 like | det |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fright | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fright | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 fright | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fright | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fright | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fright | det |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 putting | punct |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 putting | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 putting | punct |
| 20 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 seen | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Burst | punct |
| 25 | Burst | Burst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | vocative |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 fit | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fit | det |
| 28 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 laughter | case |
| 30 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fit | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shook | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shook | cc |
| 33 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 shook | obj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hand | det |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shook | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Seeming | punct |
| 39 | Seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 shook | advcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 faith | case |
| 41 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Seeming | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 fellow | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 fellow | cop |
| 44 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 fellow | det |
| 45 | downright | downright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fellow | amod |
| 46 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fellow | amod |
| 47 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Seeming | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | game | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer like=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a fright | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | put down | gerund | the man | the house | a fit of laughter | Burst vocative | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent house=Goal | ||
| 4 | shake | past | game not said here | game | by the hand | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme by hand=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | seem | gerund | game not said here | in faith | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in faith=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | game not said here | a downright honest fellow | 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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