Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 42

So they cut it up and cooked it; And when the feast was ready, The Turtle came yawning on, And stretching out his leg Cried out: “How tired I am!

Who acts: turtles, feast, Turtle, stretching, Was · What happens: cut up, cook, be, come, yawn on, stretch out · To what, where: many, leg · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (turtles, feast, Turtle, stretching), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 cut	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cooked	cc
7	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cooked	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ready	punct
10	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 ready	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 ready	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ready	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Turtle	det
18	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	parataxis
20	yawning	yawn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 came	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 yawning	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Cried	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 Cried	cc
24	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 Cried	csubj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stretching	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 leg	nmod:poss
27	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretching	obj
28	Cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 Cried	compound:prt
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 tired	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 tired	punct
32	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 tired	advmod
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	parataxis
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 tired	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tired	cop
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut up	present	turtles = turtle	many		tree rules
2	cook	past	turtles = turtle not said here	many		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	past	the feast		ready property	tree rules
4	come	past	the Turtle			tree rules
5	yawn on	gerund	the Turtle not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stretch out	gerund		Was's leg		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
7	cry out speech: express	past	stretching			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	Was		tired property	tree rules

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 9, sentence 42