Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 30

And always from that day The three smelt so divinely That all who could draw near them Were ever in delight; And happy were the Indians Who could get a single whiff Of that celestial fragrance Spread by them all around!

Who acts: happy Indians · What happens: draw, be, get, spread, whiff · To what, where: happy Indians, single whiff, celestial fragrance, three smelt

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happy Indians), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 smelt	cc
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 smelt	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smelt	obl
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smelt	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 smelt	nummod
8	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 divinely	advmod
10	divinely	divinely	ADV	_	12 all	advmod
11	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 all	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 smelt	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 draw	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 draw	aux
15	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 all	acl:relcl
16	near	near	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 draw	obl
18	Were	Were	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 delight	nsubj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 delight	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 delight	case
21	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 them	appos
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 happy	cc
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Indians	amod
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Indians	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Indians	det
27	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 get	nsubj
28	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 smelt	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 whiff	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 whiff	amod
33	whiff	whiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
34	Of	of	ADP	_	37 fragrance	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 fragrance	det
36	celestial	celestial	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fragrance	compound
37	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 whiff	nmod
38	Spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fragrance	acl
39	by	by	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 Spread	obl
41	all	all	ADV	_	42 around	advmod
42	around	around	ADV	_	38 Spread	advmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 smelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	could			near pilgrims = pilgrim; who nsubj	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the happy Indians		tree rules
3	get	could	the happy Indians	a single whiff of that celestial fragrance	the three smelt from that day nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whiff=Stimulus
4	spread	participle		that celestial fragrance not said here	by pilgrims = pilgrim; around property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Location
6	whiff			that celestial fragrance		nom whiff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 7, sentence 30