Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
“Thou also art far too strong,” Replied the mighty Master; So he smoothed him down in his hands, And, as he was smoothed, the Squirrel Grew ever smaller and smaller, Till he was as we see him now.
Who acts: mighty Master, squirrel · What happens: reply, smooth down, smooth, be · To what, where: Men, hands, squirrel
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 (mighty Master, squirrel), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Replied | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 art | advmod |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Replied | parataxis |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 strong | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 art | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 10 | Replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Master | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Master | amod |
| 13 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Replied | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 smoothed | punct |
| 15 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 smoothed | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smoothed | nsubj |
| 17 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Replied | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 smoothed | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 smoothed | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smoothed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 smoothed | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 smoothed | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 And | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 smoothed | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 smoothed | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 smoothed | aux:pass |
| 29 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 smoothed | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Grew | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Grew | det |
| 32 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Grew | compound |
| 33 | Grew | Grew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 smoothed | obl |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 smaller | advmod |
| 35 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 Grew | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 smaller | cc |
| 37 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 smaller | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 see | punct |
| 39 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 see | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 see | cop |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 see | nsubj |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 smoothed | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 see | obj |
| 46 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 see | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the mighty Master | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | smooth down | past | squirrel | Men | squirrel's hands | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | smooth | past · passive | squirrel | the Squirrel Grew obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | squirrel | now | we nsubj; Men obj; see property | 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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