Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 83
Yes, he lives in a very great wigwam, A wigwam very long-- That is, a council lodge-- Where he always is making arrows; And all one side of the lodge Is full of arrows now, All closely packed together, Even as your fingers lie.
Who acts: Kulóskap, That, one side, fingers · What happens: live, be, make, pack, lie · To what, where: great wigwam, council lodge, arrows, All
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 (Kulóskap, That, one side, fingers), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 lives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wigwam | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wigwam | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wigwam | amod |
| 9 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wigwam | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wigwam | det |
| 12 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wigwam | conj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lives | advmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 lodge | punct |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 lodge | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lodge | cop |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lodge | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lodge | det |
| 20 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lodge | compound |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | parataxis |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 making | punct |
| 23 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 making | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 making | nsubj |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 making | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 making | aux |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 lodge | advcl |
| 28 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 making | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 full | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 full | cc |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 side | det |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 side | nummod |
| 33 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 full | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 lodge | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lodge | det |
| 36 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 side | nmod |
| 37 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 full | cop |
| 38 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lives | parataxis |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 arrows | case |
| 40 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 full | obl |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 full | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 packed | punct |
| 43 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 packed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 45 packed | advmod |
| 45 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lives | parataxis |
| 46 | together | together | ADV | _ | 45 packed | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 lie | punct |
| 48 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 52 lie | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 lie | mark |
| 50 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 51 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 lie | nsubj |
| 52 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 packed | parataxis |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Kulóskap | a great wigwam and a wigwam | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | That | a council lodge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present · progressive | Kulóskap | arrows | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Product | |||
| 4 | is | present | all one side of the lodge | now | of arrows; full property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pack | participle · passive | All | closely, together property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lie | present | your fingers | vn assuming_position-50 «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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