Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 7
Ere this, there had been in the world None of the creatures which dwell In the water, but now they were there Of every kind.
Who acts: Ere, creatures, Indians · What happens: have, be, dwell · To what, where: None, water, Ere
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 (Ere, creatures, Indians), 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 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Ere | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ere | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 had | expl |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ere | acl:relcl |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 None | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 None | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 None | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 None | compound |
| 10 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 creatures | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creatures | det |
| 13 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 None | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dwell | nsubj |
| 15 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dwell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 there | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 there | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 there | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 there | cop |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 None | parataxis |
| 25 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kind | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 kind | det |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 there | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this Ere not said here | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | None | of the creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the creatures | the water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Indians = indian | now | of every kind; there property | tree rules |
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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