Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 18

The wind blew sharp and shrill, The snow began to fall, And Lox began to think How very nice ’twould be, And pleasant, to be _warm_.

Who acts: wind, snow, Lox · What happens: blow, begin, fall, think, be, _ · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wind, snow, Lox), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shrill	cc
6	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sharp	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snow	det
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fall	mark
12	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
15	Lox	Lox	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 nice	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 nice	advmod
21	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 think	ccomp
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 nice	punct
23	twould	twould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 nice	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pleasant	punct
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 pleasant	cc
27	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nice	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 _	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	31 _	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 _	aux:pass
31	_	_	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 think	ccomp
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 _	xcomp
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 _	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	sharp property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the snow		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fall	to-infinitive	the snow not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	Lox		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Lox not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	is	infinitive		nice property	tree rules
7	be				tree rules
8	_	to-infinitive · passive		warm property	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 19, sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 18