Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
This Marten ever ate From a small dish of bark Called Witchkwîdlakunchich.
Who acts: Marten · What happens: eat, call · To what, where: small dish, bark · 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 (Marten), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Marten | det |
| 2 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 ate | advmod |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 dish | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dish | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dish | amod |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bark | case |
| 10 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dish | nmod |
| 11 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bark | acl |
| 12 | Witchkwîdlakunchich | Witchkwîdlakunchich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Called | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | this Marten | a small dish of bark | ever | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from dish=Source | |||
| 2 | call | participle | bark not said here | Witchkwîdlakunchich xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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