Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 94

Thus, he who would be tall Became exceeding great, For his head rose o’er the wood Even as a giant pine; Nor was the top-feather forgotten; It waves in the wind to this hour.

Who acts: man, head, Nor, pine · What happens: be, become, exceed, rise, forget, wave · To what, where: top feather

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, head, Nor, pine), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 tall	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tall	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tall	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	Became	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tall	acl
9	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Became	xcomp
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exceeding	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rose	punct
12	For	for	SCONJ	_	15 rose	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rose	nsubj
15	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Became	advcl
16	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rose	obl
19	Even	even	ADV	_	23 pine	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 pine	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pine	det
22	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pine	amod
23	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rose	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 feather	punct
25	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 feather	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 feather	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 feather	det
28	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 feather	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 top	punct
30	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	conj
31	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 feather	acl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 waves	punct
33	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 waves	nsubj
34	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 wind	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wind	det
37	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waves	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 hour	case
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 hour	det
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 waves	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	man			who nsubj; tall, thus property	tree rules
2	become	participle					tree rules
3	exceed	gerund				great property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	rise	past	man's head			o'er the wood; as a giant pine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Nor	the top feather			tree rules
6	forget	participle		the top feather not said here			tree rules
7	wave	present	pine		hour	in the wind	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 94