Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 22
So Kulóskap, nothing loath, Consented, for he was A mighty fisherman, Like all the Wabanaki Who live along the shore.
Who acts: KULÓSKAP, Wabanaki · What happens: consent, be, live · To what, where: shore
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 (KULÓSKAP, Wabanaki), 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 loath | advmod |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 loath | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Kulóskap | appos |
| 5 | loath | loath | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Consented | punct |
| 7 | Consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 loath | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fisherman | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fisherman | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fisherman | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fisherman | cop |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fisherman | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fisherman | amod |
| 14 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Consented | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wabanaki | punct |
| 16 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 19 Wabanaki | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Wabanaki | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wabanaki | det |
| 19 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fisherman | nmod |
| 20 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 live | nsubj |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Wabanaki | acl:relcl |
| 22 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 shore | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shore | det |
| 24 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 live | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | KULÓSKAP = kulóskap | for a mighty fisherman; like all Wabanaki | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | all Wabanaki | the shore | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location |
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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