Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 63
Wuchoʿsen the Giant Eagle, The Bird-Who-Blows-the-Winds, Lives far away in the North, Ever sitting on a rock Which is at the end of the sky; Because when he flaps his wings The wind blows over the earth, Men gave him the name of old.
Who acts: Winds, rock, WUCHOʿSEN, Men · What happens: sit, be, flap, blow, give · To what, where: rock, end, wings, earth, name, WUCHOʿSEN
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 (Winds, rock, WUCHOʿSEN, Men), 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 | Wuchoʿsen | Wuchoʿsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 blows | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Eagle | amod |
| 4 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wuchoʿsen | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bird | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bird | det |
| 7 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wuchoʿsen | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bird | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 - | parataxis |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Blows | punct |
| 11 | Blows | Blows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Who | appos |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Winds | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Winds | det |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 the | punct |
| 15 | Winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Blows | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lives | punct |
| 17 | Lives | Life | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Winds | conj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 Lives | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 North | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 North | det |
| 22 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lives | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sitting | punct |
| 24 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Winds | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 rock | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rock | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sitting | obl |
| 29 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 end | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 end | cop |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 end | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 end | det |
| 33 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rock | acl:relcl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sky | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sky | det |
| 36 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 end | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wuchoʿsen | punct |
| 38 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 41 flaps | mark |
| 39 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 flaps | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 flaps | nsubj |
| 41 | flaps | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 blows | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wings | nmod:poss |
| 43 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 flaps | obj |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wind | det |
| 45 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blows | nsubj |
| 46 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 47 | over | over | ADP | _ | 49 earth | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 earth | det |
| 49 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blows | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 gave | punct |
| 51 | Men | Men | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 gave | nsubj |
| 52 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 blows | conj |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 gave | iobj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 name | det |
| 55 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 gave | obj |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 old | case |
| 57 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 name | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the Winds and Lives in the North not said here | a rock | ever | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | a rock | at the end | of the sky | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flap | present | WUCHOʿSEN | WUCHOʿSEN's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | blow | present | Wuchoʿsen | the earth | the wind nsubj | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | give | past | Men | the name of old | WUCHOʿSEN | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=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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