Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
To the flash and crash of lightning Amid the rising waters The Indians danced on!
Who acts: flash, Indians, lightning · What happens: rise, water, dance on, crash
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 (flash, Indians, lightning), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 flash | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waters | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crash | cc |
| 5 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flash | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crash | nmod |
| 8 | Amid | amid | SCONJ | _ | 10 rising | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rising | det |
| 10 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 flash | acl |
| 11 | waters | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indians | det |
| 13 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 danced | nsubj |
| 14 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 waters | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 danced | compound:prt |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 waters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | the flash and crash of lightning not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | water | present | the flash and crash of lightning | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dance on | past | the Indians | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | crash | lightning | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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