Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 7

So in memory of this thing, All turtles in swamps or rivers When they see a man a-coming Tip-tilt them into the water With a _plump!

Who acts: turtles, man, Tip · What happens: see, come, tilt · To what, where: man, memory, Tip, men, water

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, man, Tip), 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	_	16 see	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 memory	case
3	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thing	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 memory	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 memory	punct
8	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 turtles	det
9	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 see	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 swamps	case
11	swamps	swamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turtles	nmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 rivers	cc
13	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 swamps	conj
14	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 see	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	nmod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 a	punct
21	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 man	acl
22	Tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coming	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tilt	punct
24	tilt	tilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Tip	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tilt	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tilt	obl
29	With	with	ADP	_	32 plump	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 plump	det
31	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plump	amod
32	plump	plump	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tilt	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	all turtles in swamps or rivers	a man a	memory of this thing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	a man a not said here	Tip			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tip=Theme
3	tilt	present	Tip not said here	men = man	the water	with a _ plump	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

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 7