Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 15
So piling up some sticks He bounded over them; They burst into a blaze.
Who acts: Lox, sticks · What happens: pile up, bound, burst · To what, where: sticks, blaze
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lox, sticks), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 bounded | advmod |
| 2 | piling | pile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bounded | advcl |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 piling | compound:prt |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sticks | det |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 piling | obj |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bounded | nsubj |
| 7 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bounded | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 burst | punct |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 burst | nsubj |
| 12 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bounded | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 blaze | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blaze | det |
| 15 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burst | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | gerund | Lox not said here | some sticks | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme stick=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bound | past | Lox | over sticks = stick | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | sticks = stick | a blaze | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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