Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 156
He was in truth himself A Partridge who had been Wintering beneath the snow, And who in joy came forth To greet the pleasant spring.
Who acts: man, Partridge, truth · What happens: be, winter, come, greet · To what, where: truth, snow, joy
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, Partridge, truth), 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 truth | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 truth | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 truth | nmod |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Partridge | det |
| 7 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wintering | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Wintering | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Wintering | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Wintering | aux |
| 11 | Wintering | winter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 truth | acl:relcl |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 snow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snow | det |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wintering | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 truth | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | To | to | PART | _ | 23 greet | mark |
| 23 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spring | det |
| 25 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 spring | amod |
| 26 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 greet | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | truth | man nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | winter | past · perfect · progressive | a Partridge | the snow | truth nsubj | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath snow=Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | truth | joy | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location | |||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | truth not said here | spring | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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