Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 104
These lines indicate the measure to which the whole was sung; _i.e._, they are a “staff-rhyme.”
Who acts: lines · What happens: indicate, sing, be · To what, where: measure, whole, staff rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lines), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 lines | det |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 indicate | nsubj |
| 3 | indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 measure | det |
| 5 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 indicate | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sung | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whole | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sung | aux:pass |
| 11 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 measure | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rhyme | punct |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 i.e. | punct |
| 14 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 23 rhyme | nsubj |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 i.e. | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 i.e. | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rhyme | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rhyme | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rhyme | det |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 rhyme | punct |
| 21 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rhyme | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 staff | punct |
| 23 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 indicate | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 indicate | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 indicate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | present | this lines | the measure | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot measure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · passive | the whole | the measure | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to which=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a staff rhyme | lines = line nsubj | 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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