Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 60
But when the day dawns His song rings again; _Lappilatwan Wechkutonébit_, “Fair tree-fungus Fair tree-fungus Sits with mouth open.”
Who acts: day, Fair tree fungus, LAPPILATWAN · What happens: dawn, ring, sit, sing · To what, where: song, Lappilatwan
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 (day, Fair tree fungus, LAPPILATWAN), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 rings | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 dawns | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawns | nsubj |
| 5 | dawns | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rings | advcl |
| 6 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawns | obj |
| 8 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 rings | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 12 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rings | obj |
| 13 | Wechkutonébit | Wechkutonébit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lappilatwan | flat |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Sits | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Sits | punct |
| 17 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fungus | amod |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fungus | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tree | punct |
| 20 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Sits | nsubj |
| 21 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fungus | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fungus | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tree | punct |
| 24 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fungus | conj |
| 25 | Sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Lappilatwan | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Sits | obl |
| 28 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Sits | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 rings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | present | the day | LAPPILATWAN's song | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | Lappilatwan | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lappilatwan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | Fair tree fungus and Fair tree fungus | with mouth; open property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sing | LAPPILATWAN | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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