Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 164
Among the Iroquois Another wizard sat And when he heard the plash Quoth he: “The foe is there, The fierce Abenakis.”
Who acts: wizard, foe · What happens: sit, hear, be · To what, where: Iroquois, plash · 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 (wizard, foe), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 Iroquois | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Iroquois | det |
| 3 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 4 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 wizard | det |
| 5 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sat | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plash | det |
| 12 | plash | plash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | Quoth | Quoth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plash | appos |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 there | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foe | det |
| 18 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 there | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | cop |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 heard | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Abenakis | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Abenakis | det |
| 23 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Abenakis | amod |
| 24 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 there | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | another wizard | the Iroquois | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among iroquois=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | wizard | the plash | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the foe | the fierce Abenakis conj; there property | tree rules |
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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