Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 20

Up leaped a jolly blaze As if to dance with him; This was the second fire And he had still three nights Of bitter killing cold, Ere he could reach his home-- The Indian Devil Lox!

Who acts: Up, This, Lox · What happens: leap, dance, be, night, kill, reach · To what, where: jolly blaze, second fire, home

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 (Up, This, 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	Up	Up	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	nsubj
2	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blaze	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blaze	amod
5	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	obj
6	As	as	SCONJ	_	9 dance	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 dance	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dance	mark
9	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leaped	advcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dance	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fire	punct
13	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 fire	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fire	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 fire	amod
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaped	parataxis
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	23 nights	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nights	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 nights	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 nights	advmod
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 nights	nummod
23	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fire	conj
24	Of	of	ADP	_	25 bitter	case
25	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nights	amod
26	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 bitter	advcl
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 killing	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Ere	punct
29	Ere	Ere	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fire	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 reach	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	aux
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leaped	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 home	nmod:poss
34	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reach	obj
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 Lox	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Lox	det
37	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Lox	amod
38	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Lox	compound
39	Lox	Lox	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 home	appos
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leap	past	Up	a jolly blaze			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blaze=Trajectory
2	dance	to-infinitive	Up not said here			with Up	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	This	the second fire and three nights and Ere		Ere conj	tree rules
4	night	past	Lox		still		tree rules
5	kill	gerund	Lox not said here			cold property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	reach	could	Lox	Lox's home			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 20