Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 38
Long ago some River-elves were living near our town.
Who acts: River elves · What happens: live · To what, where: town
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 (River elves), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ago | advmod |
| 2 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 living | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 elves | det |
| 4 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 elves | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 River | punct |
| 6 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 living | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 living | aux |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 town | nmod:poss |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | some River elves | our town | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near town=Location |
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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