Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
But Sable, when the stick Was burning, or red hot, Thrust it into his eyes; (It had a forked end) Utterly blinding him; Then headlong rushed away.
Who acts: stick, Sable, rod · What happens: burn, thrust, have, fork, blind, rush away · To what, where: rod, eyes, forked end, stick
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 (stick, Sable, rod), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 Thrust | cc |
| 2 | Sable | Sable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Thrust | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burning | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 burning | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burning | nsubj |
| 7 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burning | aux |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Sable | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thrust | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Thrust | cc |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Thrust | advcl |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 red | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 red | punct |
| 14 | Thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Thrust | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Thrust | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 21 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Thrust | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 24 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 27 | Utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 28 blinding | advmod |
| 28 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 had | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 blinding | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thrust | punct |
| 31 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 headlong | advmod |
| 32 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Thrust | parataxis |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 headlong | acl |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 rushed | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · progressive | the stick | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thrust | infinitive | Sable | rod | stick's eyes | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | rod | a forked end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | blind | gerund | rod not said here | stick | utterly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | rush away | participle | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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