Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 153
But as in his delight He stretched out both his hands To grasp the tempting food, The bear-skin, melting fast, As water ran away-- For it was but the snow Which all the winter long Had gathered o’er his nest.
Who acts: man, water, it · What happens: stretch out, grasp, melt, run away, be, gather · To what, where: hands, tempting food, winter
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, water, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stretched | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 delight | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 delight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stretched | obl |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stretched | nsubj |
| 7 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 stretched | compound:prt |
| 9 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 hands | cc:preconj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stretched | obl |
| 12 | To | to | PART | _ | 13 grasp | mark |
| 13 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stretched | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 15 | tempting | tempting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 food | compound |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grasp | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 skin | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 skin | det |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skin | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 bear | punct |
| 21 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 food | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 melting | punct |
| 23 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 grasp | advcl |
| 24 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 melting | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 26 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 ran | mark |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 melting | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 ran | advmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 snow | punct |
| 31 | For | for | ADP | _ | 36 snow | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 snow | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 snow | cop |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 snow | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 snow | det |
| 36 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 37 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 gathered | obj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 winter | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 winter | det |
| 40 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 gathered | advmod |
| 42 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 gathered | aux |
| 43 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 snow | acl:relcl |
| 44 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 46 nest | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 nest | nmod:poss |
| 46 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 gathered | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | man | man's hands | as man's delight | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | grasp | to-infinitive | man not said here | the tempting food and the bear skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | melt | gerund | man not said here | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | water | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | it | for the snow | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | gather | past · perfect · passive | all winter | o'er man's nest; the snow obj; long property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Theme | ||||
| 7 | delight | man | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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