Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 156
Long, long years ago When wizards were not few There happened near our town A war of which I’ll tell.
Who acts: wizards, I · What happens: not be, happen, tell · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wizards, I), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 few | advmod |
| 6 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 few | mark |
| 7 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 few | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 few | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 few | advmod |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 happened | expl |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 few | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 town | nmod:poss |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happened | obl |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 war | det |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 town | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 tell | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | aux |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 war | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 few | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | wizards | ago, few property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | wizards not said here | our town a war; there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near town=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | of a war | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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