Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 51
And he sat Upon the floor, in baby peace profound Sucking a piece of maple sugar sweet; Greatly content and troubling nobody.
Who acts: man, baby peace profound · What happens: sit, suck, trouble · To what, where: content, floor, piece, nobody
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 (man, baby peace profound), 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 | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 profound | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 profound | case |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 profound | compound |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 profound | compound |
| 11 | profound | profound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | Sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 profound | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sucking | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sweet | case |
| 16 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sugar | compound |
| 17 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweet | compound |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 content | punct |
| 20 | Greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 21 content | advmod |
| 21 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 troubling | cc |
| 23 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 content | conj |
| 24 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 troubling | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | man | content | the floor | baby peace profound conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location | ||
| 2 | suck | gerund | baby peace profound not said here | a piece of sugar sweet | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Source | ||||
| 3 | trouble | gerund | man not said here | nobody | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nobody=Experiencer |
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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