Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 17
[54] Long ago there were many wizards in our town.
Who acts: many wizards · What happens: be · To what, where: 54
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: who acts (many wizards), 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 | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 2 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 were | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 4 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ago | advmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 54 | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wizards | amod |
| 9 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 town | nmod:poss |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wizards | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many wizards in our town | 54 | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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