Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 27
Thus saying, He piled up the sticks again, And had a third fire--although The first night had not come.
Who acts: weather, first night · What happens: say, pile up, have, not come · To what, where: sticks, third fire · 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 (weather, first night), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 piled | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 piled | nsubj |
| 5 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 piled | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sticks | det |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 piled | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 piled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piled | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 fire | amod |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 come | mark |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 night | amod |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | weather not said here | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pile up | past | weather | the sticks | again | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | a third fire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not come | past | the first night | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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