Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 20
There as if dying Lay Kʾmēwun The ancient Rain-mother, Weaker and older, And worn and weary.
What happens: die
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 Kʾmēwun | expl |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Kʾmēwun | case |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 Kʾmēwun | mark |
| 4 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Kʾmēwun | amod |
| 5 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Kʾmēwun | compound |
| 6 | Kʾmēwun | Kʾmēwun | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mother | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | amod |
| 9 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rain | punct |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Kʾmēwun | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Weaker | punct |
| 13 | Weaker | Weaker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mother | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 older | cc |
| 15 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Weaker | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worn | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 worn | cc |
| 18 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weary | cc |
| 20 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 worn | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kʾmēwun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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