Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 27
For they had not gone far, When right before their path They saw an awful storm Coming to meet them.
Who acts: dance, awful storm · What happens: not go, see, come, meet · To what, where: awful storm, dance
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 (dance, awful storm), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 path | punct |
| 8 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 right | advmod |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 path | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 path | nmod:poss |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | conj |
| 13 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 path | acl:relcl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 storm | det |
| 16 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 storm | amod |
| 17 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | Coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 storm | acl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Coming | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | dance | dance's path conj; far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | dance | a awful storm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a awful storm not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | a awful storm not said here | dance | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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