Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 31

However, Lox the Believing, Said, “What is good for once Must surely be good for ever,” And made up a pile of sticks, Then gayly jumping over Awaited the cheerful blaze.

Who acts: Lox, Must · What happens: be, make up, jump, await · To what, where: pile, cheerful 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, Must), 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	However	however	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	Lox	Lox	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 good	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Believing	det
5	Believing	Believing	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lox	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Said	punct
7	Said	Said	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lox	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 good	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	cop
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 good	mark
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 good	advmod
15	Must	Must	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 good	nsubj
16	surely	surely	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 ever	case
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 good	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 good	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 good	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 made	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pile	det
27	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 sticks	case
29	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pile	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gayly	punct
31	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 gayly	advmod
32	gayly	gayly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	conj
33	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 gayly	advcl
34	over	over	SCONJ	_	35 Awaited	mark
35	Awaited	await	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 jumping	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 blaze	det
37	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 blaze	amod
38	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Awaited	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Lox Said			What nsubj; good, however property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive	Must			good, once, surely property	tree rules
3	make up	past	Lox Said not said here	a pile of sticks			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pile=Pivot
4	be		Lox Said not said here		then		tree rules
5	jump	gerund	Lox Said not said here				tree rules
6	await	participle	Lox Said not said here	the cheerful blaze			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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 31