Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 58
For there the road led on Between the hideous heads Of two great serpents, which Did almost touch their lips, And darted terrible tongues At those who went between.
Who acts: two great serpents · What happens: lead, touch, dart, go · To what, where: road, hideous heads, lips, terrible tongues, those
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 (two great serpents), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 road | case |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 For | expl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 darted | obl |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 road | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 7 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heads | det |
| 9 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heads | amod |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 11 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 serpents | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 serpents | nummod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 serpents | amod |
| 14 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touch | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 touch | nsubj |
| 17 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 touch | aux |
| 18 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 19 touch | advmod |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 serpents | acl:relcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lips | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 touch | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 darted | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 darted | cc |
| 24 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tongues | amod |
| 26 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 darted | obj |
| 27 | At | at | ADP | _ | 28 those | case |
| 28 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 tongues | nmod |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 those | acl:relcl |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 went | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 darted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | the road not said here | the hideous heads of two great serpents | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on head=Destination | ||||
| 2 | touch | past · do-support | two great serpents | serpents's lips | almost property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | dart | past | terrible tongues | those | for the road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme at that=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | go | past | who nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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