Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 25
Then Sable found in fact A very rugged rod, As twisted as a worm, When it is wounded; then As he came in, the Snake Cried out, amazed and wroth, “How hast thou dared to bring To me a stick like that?”
Who acts: Sable, stick, Snake, thou · What happens: find, wound, come in, cry out, have, dare · To what, where: rugged rod, fact, rod, stick, Kulóskap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sable, stick, Snake, thou), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fact | case |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rod | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 rugged | advmod |
| 8 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rod | amod |
| 9 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twisted | punct |
| 11 | As | as | ADV | _ | 12 twisted | advmod |
| 12 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 worm | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 worm | det |
| 15 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twisted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wounded | punct |
| 17 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 wounded | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wounded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wounded | aux:pass |
| 20 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 worm | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 came | advmod |
| 23 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Cried | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Snake | det |
| 29 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Cried | nsubj |
| 30 | Cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 Cried | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 amazed | punct |
| 33 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Cried | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wroth | cc |
| 35 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 amazed | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hast | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 hast | punct |
| 38 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 hast | advmod |
| 39 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | parataxis |
| 40 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 dared | nsubj |
| 41 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 hast | ccomp |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 bring | mark |
| 43 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 dared | xcomp |
| 44 | To | to | ADP | _ | 45 me | case |
| 45 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 bring | obl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 stick | det |
| 47 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bring | obj |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 49 that | case |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 stick | nmod |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 39 hast | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Sable | a rugged rod | fact | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Topic | ||
| 2 | wound | present · passive | rod | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come in | past | stick | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | the Snake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | dare in a quote | past | thou | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | a stick | Kulóskap | like that | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme to i=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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