Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 51
[43] Long ago people used to live in the red light of morning.
Who acts: people · What happens: use, live, light · To what, where: 43, red light, morning
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 (people), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 43 | punct |
| 2 | 43 | 43 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 used | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 43 | punct |
| 4 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ago | advmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 used | advmod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | nsubj |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | people | 43 | ago property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | people not said here | the red light of morning | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 3 | light | morning | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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