Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
So, panting, crying for breath, And smothered in love, he died, And those who came that way Found him a silent corpse, But what became of the witches Kulóskap only can tell!
Who acts: whirr, those, way, Kulóskap · What happens: pant, cry, smother, die, come, find · To what, where: whirr, witches · Speech: someone speaks here
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, those, way, Kulóskap), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 died | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 died | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 panting | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 breath | case |
| 7 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 smothered | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smothered | cc |
| 10 | smothered | smother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 panting | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 love | case |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smothered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 panting | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 came | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 died | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Found | nsubj |
| 23 | Found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Found | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 corpse | det |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 corpse | amod |
| 27 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Found | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 became | punct |
| 29 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 became | cc |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 became | nsubj |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 died | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 witches | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 witches | det |
| 34 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 became | obl |
| 35 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 tell | nsubj |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 tell | advmod |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 tell | aux |
| 38 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 witches | acl:relcl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | gerund | whirr not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | whirr not said here | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | smother | past | whirr not said here | in love | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in love=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | whirr | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | come | past | those | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past | that way | whirr | a silent corpse obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme corpse=Attribute | |||
| 7 | become | past | of the witches; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | can | Kulóskap | the witches not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient |
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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