Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 52
And as she paddled away She sang in the Indian tongue: “_Nikedha pogumʾk mʾneʿnuk Petesinel sagʾmawiw!
Who acts: death · What happens: paddle away, sing · To what, where: pogumʾk sagʾmawiw, Indian tongue
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 (death), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sang | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 paddled | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paddled | nsubj |
| 4 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | advcl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 paddled | advmod |
| 6 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sang | nsubj |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tongue | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tongue | det |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tongue | amod |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 sagʾmawiw | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sagʾmawiw | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 pogumʾk | punct |
| 15 | Nikedha | Nikedha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pogumʾk | compound |
| 16 | pogumʾk | pogumʾk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sagʾmawiw | compound |
| 17 | mʾneʿnuk | mʾneʿnuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pogumʾk | appos |
| 18 | Petesinel | Petesinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mʾneʿnuk | flat |
| 19 | sagʾmawiw | sagʾmawiw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sang | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle away | past | death | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | death | pogumʾk sagʾmawiw | the Indian tongue | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tongue=Location |
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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