Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 14
That island to this day Is called the Place of Skulls, Wdupsek in our tongue.
What happens: call · To what, where: island · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 island | nmod |
| 6 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Place | det |
| 9 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Skulls | case |
| 11 | Skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Place | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wdupsek | punct |
| 13 | Wdupsek | Wdupsek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Place | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tongue | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wdupsek | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | that island to this day | the Place of Skulls xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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