Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 14

Then all sat still again Till evening, when they saw The Northern Light return Completely, sadly tired; He quivered and he shook As beaten by fatigue, Yet for all that the Light Had not been through the world, For, coming to the south, The heat had sent him home.

Who acts: Lights, Northern Light, Nor · What happens: sit, see, return, quiver, shake, beat · To what, where: world, south, heat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lights, Northern Light, Nor), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 again	advmod
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
6	Till	till	ADP	_	7 evening	case
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Light	det
13	Northern	Northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Light	amod
14	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 return	nsubj
15	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	ccomp
16	Completely	completely	ADV	_	15 return	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
18	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	19 tired	advmod
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 return	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 quivered	punct
21	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 quivered	nsubj
22	quivered	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shook	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 shook	nsubj
25	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 quivered	conj
26	As	as	SCONJ	_	27 beaten	mark
27	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 shook	xcomp
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 fatigue	case
29	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beaten	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 coming	punct
31	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	46 coming	cc
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 coming	obl
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 all	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Had	det
36	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Had	compound
37	Had	Had	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 all	nmod
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 world	advmod
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 world	cop
40	through	through	ADP	_	42 world	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 all	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
44	For	for	ADP	_	33 all	case
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 all	punct
46	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 south	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 south	det
49	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 coming	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 sent	punct
51	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 heat	det
52	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 sent	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 sent	aux
54	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 sent	obj
56	home	home	ADV	_	54 sent	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past				then; again; still; evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Lights = light					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	return	present	the Northern Light				completely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	quiver	past	Nor					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	shake	past	Nor					tree rules
6	beat	participle	Nor not said here				by fatigue	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fatigue=Location
7	not is	participle			the world			tree rules
8	come	gerund			the south		for all that the Light Had	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to south=Initial_Location
9	send	past · perfect · passive		the heat			Nor obj; home property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 14