Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 68
Sexkâtû the squirrel Wanted that birch-tree For his own home: He would be nesting In that same place.
Who acts: Sexkâtû · What happens: want, nest · To what, where: birch tree, same place
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), 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 | Sexkâtû | Sexkâtû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 squirrel | det |
| 3 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | Wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 tree | mark |
| 6 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 birch | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wanted | xcomp |
| 9 | For | for | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Wanted | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 nesting | punct |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nesting | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 nesting | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nesting | aux |
| 17 | nesting | nest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Wanted | advcl |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nesting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Sexkâtû | birch tree | for squirrel's own home; the squirrel nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | nest | would · progressive | Sexkâtû | that same place | vn berry-13.7 «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.
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