Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 103
I sit and beat the wizard’s magic drum; The storm and thunder answer when it calls.
Who acts: I, drum · What happens: sit, beat, call · To what, where: storm, magic drum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, drum), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beat | cc |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wizard | det |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drum | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 wizard | case |
| 8 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drum | compound |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beat | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 storm | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storm | det |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sit | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answer | cc |
| 14 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answer | compound |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 storm | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 calls | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 calls | nsubj |
| 18 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sit | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | I | the storm and thunder answer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | I not said here | the wizard's magic drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | drum | 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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