Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 79
Then the messenger told How his people were pining Near dead of their thirst, Which seemed hugely to please The monster, who grinned for joy, Till at last he rose to his feet.
Who acts: messenger, people, thirst, monster · What happens: tell, pine, seem, please, grin, rise · To what, where: dead, monster, feet · 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 (messenger, people, thirst, monster), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 pining | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pining | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pining | aux |
| 9 | pining | pine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 10 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 11 dead | case |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pining | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thirst | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pining | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 16 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thirst | acl:relcl |
| 18 | hugely | hugely | ADV | _ | 17 seemed | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 please | mark |
| 20 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monster | det |
| 22 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 please | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grinned | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 grinned | nsubj |
| 25 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 monster | acl:relcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grinned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rose | punct |
| 29 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rose | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rose | nsubj |
| 33 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grinned | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 feet | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 feet | nmod:poss |
| 36 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rose | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the messenger | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pine | past · progressive | messenger's people | dead | of people's thirst | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | seem | past | people's thirst | hugely property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | please | to-infinitive | people's thirst not said here | the monster | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | grin | past | the monster | for joy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rise | past | messenger | messenger's feet | till last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | thirst | people | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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