Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 101
And ever since that time The Bull-Frog’s back has borne Those crumpled wrinkles which Are in the lower part: These are the print-marks made By the Master’s awful squeeze.
Who acts: crumpled wrinkles, These, Master · What happens: bear, crumple, be, make, squeeze · To what, where: back, lower part, print marks
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crumpled wrinkles, These, Master), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 borne | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 time | advmod |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 borne | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Frog | det |
| 7 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Frog | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bull | punct |
| 9 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Frog | case |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 borne | aux |
| 13 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 wrinkles | det |
| 15 | crumpled | crumple | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wrinkles | amod |
| 16 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 borne | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 part | nsubj |
| 18 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 part | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrinkles | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 marks | punct |
| 24 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 marks | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 marks | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 marks | det |
| 27 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 marks | compound | ||
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 print | punct |
| 29 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 borne | obl |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 marks | acl |
| 31 | By | by | ADP | _ | 36 squeeze | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Master | det |
| 33 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 squeeze | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Master | case |
| 35 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 squeeze | amod |
| 36 | squeeze | squeeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · perfect · passive | the Bull Frog's back | time | that crumpled wrinkles obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wrinkle=Patient | |||
| 2 | crumple | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | that crumpled wrinkles | the lower part | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | These | the print marks | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | the print marks not said here | by the Master's awful squeeze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | squeeze | the Master | nom squeeze «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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