Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 99
This poem is like Homer’s Batrachomyomachia, the battle of the frogs and mice, as sung by some Icelandic bard.
Who acts: poem · What happens: be, sing, battle · To what, where: battle, frogs
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 (poem), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Batrachomyomachia | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Batrachomyomachia | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 Batrachomyomachia | case |
| 5 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Batrachomyomachia | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Homer | case |
| 7 | Batrachomyomachia | Batrachomyomachia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 battle | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 battle | det |
| 10 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Batrachomyomachia | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 frogs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frogs | det |
| 13 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 battle | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mice | cc |
| 15 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 frogs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sung | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 sung | mark |
| 18 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 battle | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 bard | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 bard | det |
| 21 | Icelandic | icelandic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bard | amod |
| 22 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sung | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Batrachomyomachia | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this poem | like Homer's Batrachomyomachia; Homer nmod:poss; the battle of the frogs and mice appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | participle | the battle of the frogs and mice not said here | by some Icelandic bard | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bard=Location | ||||
| 3 | battle | the frogs and mice | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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