Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 65
“I have lived in this tree Since your great grandfather _Kʾchî Kʾmûsums_ Was born on that cedar From which you came Early this morning.”
Who acts: Sexkâtû, you · What happens: live, bear, come · To what, where: Kʾchî Kʾmûsums, tree, cedar
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 (Sexkâtû, you), 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 | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 11 grandfather | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandfather | amod |
| 11 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Kʾmûsums | punct |
| 13 | Kʾchî | Kʾchî | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kʾmûsums | compound |
| 14 | Kʾmûsums | kʾmûsum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 born | punct |
| 16 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 born | aux:pass |
| 17 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Kʾmûsums | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 cedar | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 cedar | det |
| 20 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 born | obl |
| 21 | From | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 came | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cedar | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present · perfect | Sexkâtû | Kʾchî Kʾmûsums | this tree | since your great grandfather | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||
| 2 | bear in a quote | passive | Kʾchî Kʾmûsums not said here | that cedar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | you | that cedar | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_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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