Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 27
Now Atoʾsis the Snake, Like all the crafty folk, Was very curious And so looked closely on.
What happens: look · To what, where: Atoʾsis
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Atoʾsis | advmod |
| 2 | Atoʾsis | Atoʾsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Snake | det |
| 4 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Atoʾsis | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 6 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 10 folk | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 folk | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 folk | det |
| 9 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folk | amod |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Atoʾsis | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 curious | punct |
| 12 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 curious | nsubj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 curious | advmod |
| 14 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 folk | amod |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 curious | conj |
| 18 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 19 on | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Atoʾsis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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