Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 93

This she was heard to say Ere she went further on Up to the mountain top-- Three years then passed away Ere she was seen again, And then when she returned ’Twas with a charming child, The fairest in the land; Only one thing was strange: His eyebrows were of stone.

Who acts: This, Ere, Mount, one thing, eyebrows · What happens: hear, say, go, pass away, see, return · To what, where: This, mountain top, Mount, Twas · 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 (This, Ere, Mount, one thing), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	nsubj:pass
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux:pass
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	xcomp
7	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	further	further	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
12	Up	up	ADP	_	16 top	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	compound
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	obl:unmarked
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 passed	advmod
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 top	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 passed	advmod
23	Ere	ere	ADV	_	26 seen	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seen	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux:pass
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 passed	advcl
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 seen	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 returned	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	33 returned	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 returned	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 returned	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 returned	nsubj
33	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 Twas	punct
35	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 returned	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 child	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 child	det
38	charming	charming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 child	amod
39	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Twas	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fairest	punct
41	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fairest	det
42	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 Twas	appos
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 land	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 land	det
45	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fairest	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 strange	punct
47	Only	only	ADV	_	48 one	advmod
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 thing	nummod
49	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 strange	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 strange	cop
51	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	conj
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 stone	punct
53	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 eyebrows	nmod:poss
54	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 stone	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 stone	cop
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 stone	case
57	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		This			Mount nsubj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	This not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past	Ere		the mountain top		Mount nsubj; further property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location
4	pass away	past	Ere not said here			then; year	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	see	past · passive		Mount		again	ere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	return	past	Mount	Twas with a charming child		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	one thing				strange property	tree rules
8	is	past	Ere's eyebrows				of stone	tree rules

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 93