Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 110
In the far old time Lived near the sun A beautiful woman, Nipon her name.
Who acts: woman · What happens: live, name · To what, where: far old time, sun, Nipon name
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 (woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | obl |
| 6 | Lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lived | obl |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lived | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 14 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 name | compound |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | the far old time not said here | the sun | a beautiful woman obl:agent | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near sun=Location | |||
| 3 | name | woman | 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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