Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
He with his breath alone Can sweep all armies forth, And with his looks alone Perform most wondrous things; This means what weather can do With sunshine, frost and ice, Which are felt in everything.
Who acts: man, looks, This, weather · What happens: sweep, perform, mean, do, feel · To what, where: armies, wondrous things, ice, everything · 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 (man, looks, This, weather), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sweep | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 breath | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 breath | nmod:poss |
| 4 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | nmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 breath | advmod |
| 6 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sweep | aux |
| 7 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 armies | det |
| 9 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sweep | obj |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 sweep | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Perform | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Perform | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 looks | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 looks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Perform | nsubj |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 17 | Perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sweep | conj |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 wondrous | advmod |
| 19 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 things | amod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Perform | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 22 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 means | nsubj |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sweep | parataxis |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 25 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 means | ccomp |
| 28 | With | with | ADP | _ | 29 sunshine | case |
| 29 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 do | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 frost | punct |
| 31 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sunshine | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ice | cc |
| 33 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sunshine | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 felt | punct |
| 35 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 felt | aux:pass |
| 37 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ice | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 everything | case |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 felt | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | can | man | all armies | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme army=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | perform | present | man's looks | wondrous things | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | This | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | can | weather | with sunshine and frost and ice; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | feel | present · passive | ice | everything | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in everything=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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