Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
The brothers Blew the smoke through their nostrils As if it were light as air.
Who acts: brothers, smoke · What happens: blow, be · To what, where: smoke, nostrils
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, smoke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Blew | nsubj |
| 3 | Blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Blew | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 nostrils | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Blew | obl |
| 9 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 light | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 light | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 light | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 light | cop |
| 13 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Blew | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the brothers | the smoke | brothers's nostrils | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent smoke=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | smoke | as air; light 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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