Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 131
So to this very day, The Indians, when they see A whale who blows, cry out: “Behold, it smokes a pipe, The pipe of Kulóskap.”
Who acts: Indians, whale, pipe · What happens: see, blow, cry out, smoke · To what, where: whale, pipe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, whale, pipe), 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 | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Indians | det |
| 8 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 day | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 see | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Indians | acl:relcl |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 whale | det |
| 14 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 blows | nsubj |
| 16 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whale | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cry | punct |
| 18 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blows | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 cry | compound:prt |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 smokes | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 smokes | punct |
| 22 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 25 smokes | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Behold | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 smokes | nsubj |
| 25 | smokes | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pipe | det |
| 27 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smokes | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pipe | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pipe | det |
| 30 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pipe | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Kulóskap | case |
| 32 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pipe | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Indians = indian | a whale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whale=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | a whale | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | a whale not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smoke in a quote | present | pipe | a pipe and the pipe of Kulóskap | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |
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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