Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 48
It still exists among negroes in the United States.
Who acts: song · What happens: exist · To what, where: negroes
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 exists | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 exists | advmod |
| 3 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 negroes | case |
| 5 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 exists | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 States | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 States | det |
| 8 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 States | amod |
| 9 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 negroes | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | song | negroes in the United States | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among negro=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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