Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 67
“While the birch-tree Sends forth its leaves, While its trunk stands, I will dwell in its branches.”
Who acts: trunk, tree Sends · What happens: stand, dwell · To what, where: branches
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 (trunk, tree Sends), 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 | _ | 19 dwell | punct |
| 2 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 Sends | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 4 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 birch | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sends | compound |
| 7 | Sends | send | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dwell | nsubj |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 leaves | advmod |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Sends | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stands | punct |
| 12 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 stands | mark |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stands | nsubj |
| 15 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Sends | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sends | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 dwell | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 dwell | aux |
| 19 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 branches | nmod:poss |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dwell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 dwell | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present | tree's trunk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | future | tree Sends tree's leaves | tree's branches | I nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=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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