Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 9

But he frightened his mother by his sight; He could tell her what was coming: What was coming from afar, What was near he could not see.

Who acts: man · What happens: frighten, tell, come, not be, sight · To what, where: mother, woman, afar · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 frightened	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frightened	nsubj
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sight	nmod:poss
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 frightened	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 coming	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 coming	aux
16	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tell	ccomp
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 coming	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 coming	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 coming	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 afar	case
22	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 coming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
24	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 see	obj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 see	cop
26	near	near	ADP	_	30 see	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	man	man's mother			by man's sight	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mother=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	could	man		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	past · progressive					what nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past · progressive				afar	What nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location
5	not is	could · past	man				What obj; see property	tree rules
6	sight		man					nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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 9