Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 13
Turning her back To the Laʿtogwesnuk And Pûn the winter, Weary Nipon Set out on her journey.
Who acts: Weary, rain · What happens: turn, set out, journey · To what, where: back, journey
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 (Weary, rain), 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Set | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obj |
| 4 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 Laʿtogwesnuk | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Laʿtogwesnuk | det |
| 6 | Laʿtogwesnuk | Laʿtogwesnuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Pûn | cc |
| 8 | Pûn | Pûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Laʿtogwesnuk | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 winter | det |
| 10 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 12 | Weary | Weary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Set | nsubj |
| 13 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Weary | flat |
| 14 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 Set | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Weary not said here | rain's back | winter | to the Laʿtogwesnuk and Pûn result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent back=Theme to laʿtogwesnuk=Result | ||
| 2 | set out | past | Weary | rain's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | journey | rain | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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