Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 104
[64] Long ago on the big mountain lived the happy little leaf.
Who acts: big mountain · What happens: live · To what, where: 64
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big mountain), 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 | _ | 2 64 | punct |
| 2 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 lived | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 64 | punct |
| 4 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ago | advmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mountain | amod |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaf | det |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaf | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leaf | amod |
| 14 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the big mountain | 64 | the happy little leaf obj; ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme leaf=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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