Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 92
Now when the Lord had heard What it was that they desired, He bade the Earthquake come And put them with their feet Fast planted in the ground.
Who acts: Lord, tremble, bade · What happens: hear, be, bade, come, put, plant · To what, where: mountains, ground
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 (Lord, tremble, bade), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lord | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 desired | cop |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 desired | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 desired | nsubj |
| 12 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 What | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bade | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | nsubj |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Earthquake | det |
| 17 | Earthquake | Earthquake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 feet | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | Fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 put | advmod |
| 26 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 put | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 planted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the Lord | now | What obj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | tremble | mountains = mountain nsubj; desire property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bade | Lord | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | bade | the Earthquake nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | bade not said here | mountains = mountain | with mountains's feet; fast property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 6 | plant | participle | bade not said here | the ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination |
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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