Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 47
[61] This song clearly indicates “earth-eating” among the Indians.
Who acts: song · What happens: indicate, eat · To what, where: 61
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 (song), 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 61 | punct |
| 2 | 61 | 61 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 61 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 indicates | nsubj |
| 6 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 7 indicates | advmod |
| 7 | indicates | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 61 | parataxis |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 eating | punct |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eating | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 earth | punct |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 indicates | advcl |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 eating | punct |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Indians | det |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 eating | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 61 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | present | this song | clearly property | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | this song not said here | among the Indians; earth compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/16/47/