Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 2
Now on the next day at noon There was a glowing sunshine, And something was seen basking Upon a great flat rock About a mile from the shore.
Who acts: glowing sunshine, something · What happens: be, glow, see, bask · To what, where: something
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 (glowing sunshine, something), 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 | 9 was | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 noon | case |
| 7 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | nmod |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sunshine | det |
| 11 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 sunshine | amod |
| 12 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seen | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seen | cc |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 seen | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 was | advcl |
| 18 | basking | bask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 seen | xcomp |
| 19 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rock | amod |
| 22 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rock | amod |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basking | obl |
| 24 | About | about | ADP | _ | 26 mile | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mile | det |
| 26 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rock | nmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mile | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a glowing sunshine | there | now; day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | something | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bask | gerund | something not said here | upon a great flat rock about a mile from the shore | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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