Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 149

So searching he found a room In which there was a bed; A better he ne’er had seen, All covered with the skin Of a snow-white northern bear.

Who acts: man · What happens: search, find, ne'er, see, cover · To what, where: room, better ne’er, All

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	2 searching	advmod
2	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 found	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	In	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 was	obl
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 room	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bed	det
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ne’er	det
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 ne’er	amod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ne’er	nsubj
17	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 covered	punct
21	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 covered	nsubj:pass
22	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 seen	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 skin	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 skin	det
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obl
26	Of	of	ADP	_	32 bear	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bear	det
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 white	obl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 snow	punct
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bear	amod
31	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bear	amod
32	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skin	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	search	gerund	man not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	man	a room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic
3	ne'er		man			tree rules
4	see	past · perfect · passive		a better ne’er		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	cover	participle · passive		All	with the skin of a white northern bear	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with skin=Theme

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 18, sentence 149

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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 149