Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 59
When we in birch canoe did glide Together on that glistening lake, How fair the hills and how we watched The _red_ leaves whirling in the breeze.
Who acts: we, red _ · What happens: glide, glisten, watch, leave, whirl · To what, where: glistening lake, breeze
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 (we, red _), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 glide | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 glide | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 canoe | compound |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 we | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glide | aux |
| 7 | glide | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 7 glide | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lake | mark |
| 11 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lake | amod |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glide | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hills | punct |
| 14 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 fair | advmod |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hills | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hills | det |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lake | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 watched | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 watched | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 watched | nsubj |
| 21 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glide | conj |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 _ | det |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 _ | punct |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 _ | amod |
| 25 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaves | nsubj |
| 26 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 watched | ccomp |
| 27 | whirling | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 leaves | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 breeze | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 breeze | det |
| 30 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 whirling | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide | past · do-support | we | glistening lake and the fair hills | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | watch | past | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | present | the red _ | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | whirl | gerund | the red _ not said here | the breeze | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory |
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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