Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 33

But as Lox was persevering, He hopefully kept on jumping, Till after some thirty efforts There arose a little smoke Which came as if it were angry At being so frequently called, And then returned no more.

Who acts: Lox, thirty efforts, little smoke, smoke · What happens: persevere, keep, jump, arise, come, be · To what, where: little smoke, more · 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 (Lox, thirty efforts, little smoke, smoke), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 persevering	mark
3	Lox	Lox	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 persevering	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 persevering	aux
5	persevering	persevere	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 kept	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 persevering	punct
7	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
8	hopefully	hopefully	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 jumping	mark
11	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 kept	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jumping	punct
13	Till	till	ADP	_	17 efforts	case
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 efforts	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 efforts	det
16	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 efforts	nummod
17	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jumping	obl
18	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 arose	expl
19	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 efforts	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 smoke	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smoke	amod
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 arose	obj
23	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 smoke	acl:relcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 angry	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 angry	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 angry	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 angry	cop
29	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 came	advcl
30	At	at	SCONJ	_	34 called	mark
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 called	aux:pass
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 called	advmod
33	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	34 called	advmod
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 angry	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 returned	punct
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	38 returned	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 returned	advmod
38	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	conj
39	no	no	ADV	_	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 returned	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persevere	past · progressive	Lox					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	Lox				hopefully property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	jump	gerund	Lox not said here			till some thirty efforts		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	arise	past	some thirty efforts not said here	a little smoke	there			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Theme
5	come	past	a little smoke					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	smoke				angry property	tree rules
7	call	gerund · passive	smoke not said here				frequently property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
8	return	past	Lox not said here	more		then		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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 33