Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 39
Wild with passion the witches Threw their fair arms around him And kissed him as he responded To their ardent, fond embraces.
Who acts: Wild witches, whirr, witches · What happens: throw, kiss, respond, embrace · To what, where: fair arms, whirr
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 (Wild witches, whirr, witches), 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 witches | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 passion | case |
| 3 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wild | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witches | det |
| 5 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Threw | nsubj |
| 6 | Threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arms | amod |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Threw | obj |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Threw | obl |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kissed | cc |
| 13 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Threw | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kissed | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 responded | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 responded | nsubj |
| 17 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kissed | advcl |
| 18 | To | to | ADP | _ | 23 embraces | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 embraces | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 embraces | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ardent | punct |
| 22 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 embraces | amod |
| 23 | embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 responded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Wild witches | witches's fair arms | around whirr | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around he=Destination | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | the Wild witches not said here | whirr | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | respond speech: other | past | whirr | to witches's ardent fond embraces | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to embrace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | embrace | witches = witch | nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=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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