Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 91
Then Kulóskap the Great Lived on a wooded isle With many Indians Whose names and natures, too, Were all of beasts and birds.
Who acts: Kulóskap, many Indians · What happens: live, wood, name · To what, where: all, wooded isle
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, many 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Lived | advmod |
| 2 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lived | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Great | det |
| 4 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kulóskap | flat |
| 5 | Lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 isle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 isle | det |
| 8 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 isle | amod |
| 9 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lived | obl |
| 10 | With | with | ADP | _ | 12 Indians | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Indians | amod |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 isle | nmod |
| 13 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 names | nmod:poss |
| 14 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Indians | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 natures | cc |
| 16 | natures | nature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 names | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 too | punct |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 Lived | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 all | punct |
| 20 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 all | cop |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Lived | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beasts | case |
| 23 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 all | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 birds | cc |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beasts | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Kulóskap | all of beasts and birds | a wooded isle with many Indians many Indians names and natures's names and natures | then | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on isle=Location | ||
| 2 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | name | many Indians many Indians names and natures's names and natures | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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