Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 62
We’ll rove once more in bark canoe And watch the _green_ leaves swirl on high When spring smiles on the mountain tops.
Who acts: We, leaves, spring · What happens: rove, watch, swirl, smile · To what, where: more, bark canoe, high, mountain tops
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, leaves, spring), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 rove | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rove | aux |
| 3 | rove | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rove | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 canoe | compound |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rove | obl |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watch | cc |
| 10 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rove | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 green | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 green | punct |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 watch | xcomp |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaves | punct |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swirl | nsubj |
| 16 | swirl | swirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 green | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 high | case |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swirl | obl |
| 19 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 smiles | advmod |
| 20 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 smiles | nsubj |
| 21 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swirl | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 tops | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tops | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tops | compound |
| 25 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 smiles | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rove | future | We | more | bark canoe | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | We not said here | green property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | swirl | present | leaves | high | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on high=Location | ||||
| 4 | smile | present | spring | the mountain tops | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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