Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 54
But when the witches looked At one another--both Screamed out in dire dismay For neither had a nose!
Who acts: witches · What happens: look, scream out, have · To what, where: both, dire dismay, nose
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 (witches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witches | det |
| 4 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | advcl |
| 6 | At | at | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | fixed |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Screamed | punct |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Screamed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 looked | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 Screamed | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dismay | case |
| 14 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dismay | amod |
| 15 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Screamed | obl |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 neither | case |
| 17 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 Screamed | obl |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nose | det |
| 20 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the witches | at one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scream out speech: express | participle · passive | both | dire dismay | for neither | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | have | past | a nose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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