Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 118
The Moose was standing by, Intently looking on, With great, soft, staring eyes, Attending to it all With deepest interest.
Who acts: Moose · What happens: stand by, look on, stare, attend · To what, where: all, Moose
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moose), 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 Moose | det |
| 2 | Moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 standing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 7 | Intently | intently | ADV | _ | 8 looking | advmod |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 standing | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 looking | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 great | punct |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 staring | punct |
| 16 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Attending | punct |
| 19 | Attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 standing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Attending | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Attending | obj |
| 23 | With | with | ADP | _ | 25 interest | case |
| 24 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 interest | amod |
| 25 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 all | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand by | past · progressive | the Moose | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look on | gerund | the Moose not said here | with great soft staring eyes; intently property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | attend | gerund | the Moose not said here | all | Moose | with deepest interest | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme all=Goal |
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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