Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 4
And when they came to the rock Just hanging over the water, Whom should they see but Mikchik A-dozing in the sunlight!
Who acts: men · What happens: come, hang, see · To what, where: rock, water, dozing, sunlight
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 (men), 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 | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 9 hanging | advmod |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 14 | Whom | whom | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mikchik | cc |
| 19 | Mikchik | Mikchik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | conj |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dozing | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 A | punct |
| 22 | dozing | dozing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sunlight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sunlight | det |
| 25 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dozing | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | men = man | the rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | men = man not said here | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | should | a dozing | the sunlight | Whom nsubj; men = man nsubj; Mikchik conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dozing=Stimulus |
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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