Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
“His name is Tatebákwunowat, which means ‘a Measuring Worm.’
Who acts: name, man · What happens: be, mean, name · To what, where: Tatebákwunowat, Measuring Worm
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 (name, man), 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 | _ | 5 Tatebákwunowat | punct |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tatebákwunowat | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Tatebákwunowat | cop |
| 5 | Tatebákwunowat | Tatebákwunowat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Worm | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Worm | det |
| 11 | Measuring | Measuring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Worm | compound |
| 12 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Worm | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Worm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | man's name | Tatebákwunowat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | a Measuring Worm | which nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | man | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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