Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

But when for a third time he Attempted another leap, His scalp-lock caught on a pole, And there he hung a-dangling In the smoke which rose from below.

Who acts: All, smoke · What happens: attempt, catch, hang, dangle, rise · To what, where: leap, scalp lock, pole, a, smoke

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 (All, smoke), 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	_	8 Attempted	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 Attempted	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Attempted	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Attempted	nsubj
8	Attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 leap	det
10	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Attempted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lock	punct
12	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lock	nmod:poss
13	scalp	scalp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lock	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 scalp	punct
15	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leap	appos
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lock	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 pole	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pole	det
19	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
21	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 hung	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 hung	expl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Attempted	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hung	obj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 a	punct
27	dangling	dangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hung	advcl
28	In	in	ADP	_	30 smoke	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 smoke	det
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dangling	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 rose	nsubj
32	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 smoke	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 below	case
34	below	below	ADV	_	32 rose	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Attempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	attempt	past	All	another leap		time	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Eventuality
2	catch	participle		All's scalp lock not said here	a pole		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past	All	a	there		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient
4	dangle	gerund	All not said here		the smoke		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in smoke=Location
5	rise	past	the smoke				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from below=Initial_Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/8/73/

🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 73