Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 127
This primitive rhythm is quite irregular, following only a general cadence rather than observing any fixed number of beats in each line.
Who acts: primitive rhythm · What happens: be, follow, observe, fix · To what, where: fixed number
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (primitive rhythm), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 rhythm | det |
| 2 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rhythm | amod |
| 3 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 irregular | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 irregular | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 irregular | advmod |
| 6 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 following | punct |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cadence | case |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 cadence | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cadence | det |
| 11 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cadence | amod |
| 12 | cadence | cadence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 irregular | obl |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 observing | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | observing | observe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cadence | conj |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 number | det |
| 17 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 number | amod |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 observing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beats | case |
| 20 | beats | beat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 line | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 line | det |
| 23 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beats | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 irregular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this primitive rhythm | follow a general cadence; irregular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | observe | gerund | this primitive rhythm not said here | any fixed number of beats in each line | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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