Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 154
And as he stretched his arms, Lo! they were changed to wings!
Who acts: man · What happens: stretch, change · To what, where: arms
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 changed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stretched | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretched | nsubj |
| 4 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stretched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stretched | punct |
| 8 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 12 changed | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lo | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | aux:pass |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 changed | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | man | man's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | arms = arm | to wings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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