🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 18

Then sitting by a brook He saw the flowering rush, Or cat-tail, in the stream-- Of all the plants on earth The weakest, softest thing-- And said unto himself, Although he spoke aloud: “What soul would ever dream That in that plant abides The secret of my death?”

Who acts: Wolf, soul, softest thing, my · What happens: sit, see, say, speak, dream, abide · To what, where: cat tail, stream, flowering rush, softest thing, plant, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wolf, soul, softest thing, my), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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