Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 23
There is another Passamaquoddy version of this poem which is hardly less striking in its ending.
Who acts: Passamaquoddy version, version · What happens: be, strike, end · To what, where: poem, ending
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 (Passamaquoddy version, version), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 version | det |
| 4 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 version | compound |
| 5 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poem | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 poem | det |
| 8 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 version | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 striking | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 striking | aux |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 12 less | advmod |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 striking | advmod |
| 13 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 poem | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ending | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ending | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 striking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | another Passamaquoddy version of this poem | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | present · progressive | this poem | version's ending | less property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 3 | end | version | nom ending «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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