Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 1
And at the word they went Flying at fearful speed Adown the mountain side, And ever faster still As if to headlong death.
Who acts: they · What happens: go, fly · To what, where: word, mountain side, fearful speed
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 word | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 went | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 speed | case |
| 9 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speed | amod |
| 10 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Flying | obl |
| 11 | Adown | Adown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 speed | appos |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | compound |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Flying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 death | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 death | cc |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 faster | advmod |
| 18 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 still | advmod |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 death | advmod |
| 20 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 death | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 death | mark |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 23 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 death | amod |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | the word | to headlong death | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | they not said here | the mountain side | fearful speed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
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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