Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 75

Then he smoked Mikchik so long That his skin became a shell, A very hard round shell, And the marks of the smoke from the pipe May be seen thereon to-day.

Who acts: Kulóskap, skin · What happens: smoke, become, see, mark · To what, where: Mikchik, shell, marks, 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 (Kulóskap, skin), 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 smoked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smoked	nsubj
3	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mikchik	Mikchik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smoked	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 skin	advmod
7	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 skin	det
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smoked	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shell	det
12	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shell	punct
14	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shell	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 hard	advmod
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shell	amod
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shell	amod
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shell	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seen	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	31 seen	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 marks	det
22	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seen	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 smoke	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 smoke	det
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marks	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 pipe	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pipe	det
28	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 smoke	nmod
29	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 pipe	appos
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 seen	aux:pass
31	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smoked	advcl
32	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	35 day	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 day	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 to	punct
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seen	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smoked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	smoke	past	Kulóskap	Mikchik	then	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mikchik=Source
2	become	past	Kulóskap's skin	a shell		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	see	infinitive · passive		the marks of the smoke from the pipe	day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	mark			the smoke from the pipe		nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 75