Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 91
This great man Can pass beneath the ground, And make the mountains shake, And tremble by his power.
Who acts: great man, mountains · What happens: pass, make, shake · To what, where: ground, tremble
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 (great man, mountains), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pass | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shake | nsubj |
| 14 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tremble | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tremble | cc |
| 17 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 power | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 power | nmod:poss |
| 20 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shake | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | can | this great man | the ground | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath ground=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | this great man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake | present | the mountains | tremble | by man's power | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tremble=Theme by power=Trajectory |
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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