Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 155

And up he flew to the food, Which was the early buds Of the birch on which they hung.

Who acts: man, food, buds · What happens: fly, be, hang · To what, where: food, early buds, birch

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, food, buds), 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	_	4 flew	cc
2	up	up	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 buds	punct
9	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 buds	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 buds	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 buds	det
12	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 buds	amod
13	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 food	conj
14	Of	of	ADP	_	16 birch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birch	det
16	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buds	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 hung	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hung	nsubj
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 birch	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	man		the food and the early buds		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to food=Destination
2	is a	past	the food and the early buds	the early buds		of the birch	tree rules
3	hang	past	buds = bud		the birch		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 155