Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 21
They are a common gift Of Indian girls to their lovers, For, when cast around the neck As a necklace, it means “I love you.”
Who acts: entrails, it, girls · What happens: be, cast, mean, love · To what, where: common gift, neck, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entrails, it, girls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gift | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gift | amod |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 girls | case |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girls | amod |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gift | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lovers | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 girls | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cast | punct |
| 13 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 cast | mark |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cast | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 cast | advmod |
| 16 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gift | conj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 neck | det |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cast | obl |
| 20 | As | as | ADP | _ | 22 necklace | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 necklace | det |
| 22 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cast | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gift | parataxis |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 love | nsubj |
| 28 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | ccomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 love | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | entrails = entrail | a common gift | of Indian girls to entrails's lovers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cast | participle | entrails = entrail not said here | the neck | as a necklace | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as necklace=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | the girls = girl | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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