Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 4

From afar o’er the lakes and mountains A wild man heard her cry; He came to her, she saw him, Saw him and was afraid; She tried to flee away, For he was clothed with the rainbow, Color and light were his garments.

Who acts: wild man, man, woman, Color · What happens: hear, come, see, be, try, flee away · To what, where: cry, afar o’er, woman, man, garments

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 (wild man, man, woman, Color), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 o’er	case
2	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 o’er	amod
3	o’er	o'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lakes	det
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 o’er	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mountains	cc
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lakes	conj
8	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cry	nmod:poss
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Saw	punct
24	Saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Saw	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 afraid	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 afraid	cop
28	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Saw	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
30	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tried	nsubj
31	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 flee	mark
33	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tried	xcomp
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 flee	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 clothed	punct
36	For	for	SCONJ	_	39 clothed	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 clothed	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 clothed	aux:pass
39	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tried	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 rainbow	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rainbow	det
42	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 clothed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Color	punct
44	Color	Color	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 garments	nsubj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 light	cc
46	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 Color	conj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 garments	cop
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 garments	nmod:poss
49	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 clothed	parataxis
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a wild man	woman's cry		afar o’er and the lakes and mountains		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cry=Topic from o'er=Source
2	come	past	man		woman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	see	past	woman	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	see	past	woman not said here	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is	past	woman not said here				afraid property	tree rules
6	try	past	woman					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	flee away not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here				away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	clothe	past · passive		man			with the rainbow	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	is a	past	Color and light	man's garments			man nmod:poss	tree rules
10	cry		woman					nom cry «communication 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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 4