Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
There was a whirr as of wings And they came flying forth By hundreds round his head Like beautiful white doves Swarming all about-- Wonderful lovely girls With large black burning eyes, And torrents of flowing hair.
Who acts: whirr, wings, beautiful white doves, torrents · What happens: be, come, fly, swarm, flow · To what, where: hair
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirr, wings, beautiful white doves, torrents), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whirr | det |
| 4 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 came | xcomp |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 flying | advmod |
| 13 | By | by | ADP | _ | 14 hundreds | case |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flying | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flying | obl |
| 18 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 21 doves | case |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doves | amod |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doves | amod |
| 21 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flying | obl |
| 22 | Swarming | swarm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 doves | acl |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 about | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 Swarming | advmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 girls | punct |
| 26 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girls | amod |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girls | amod |
| 28 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 doves | conj |
| 29 | With | with | ADP | _ | 33 eyes | case |
| 30 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 eyes | amod |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 eyes | amod |
| 32 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eyes | compound |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 girls | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 torrents | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 torrents | cc |
| 36 | torrents | torrent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 flowing | mark |
| 38 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 torrents | acl |
| 39 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flowing | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a whirr | there | as wings; torrents nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | wings = wing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | wings = wing not said here | by hundreds; round whirr's head; like beautiful white doves and Wonderful lovely girls with large black burning eyes; forth property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hundred=Location | ||||
| 4 | swarm | gerund | beautiful white doves and Wonderful lovely girls with large black burning eyes not said here | about property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flow | gerund | torrents not said here | hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=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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