Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 58
And Waʾsis looked at him admiringly And seemed to find it interesting, quite; Yet, peacefully as ever kept his place.
Who acts: Waʾsis · What happens: look, seem, find, keep · To what, where: dead, place
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 (Waʾsis), 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 looked | cc |
| 2 | Waʾsis | Waʾsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | admiringly | admiringly | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seemed | cc |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 find | obj |
| 12 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 find | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quite | punct |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 find | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 16 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kept | punct |
| 18 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 21 kept | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 kept | mark |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 kept | advmod |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Waʾsis | yet | at Baby; admiringly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | Waʾsis not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Waʾsis not said here | dead | interesting property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | keep | past | Baby's place | ever | peacefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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