Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 29
[63] Long ago a fair woman named Nipon always lived near the sun.
Who acts: fair woman · What happens: name, live · To what, where: fair woman, 63, sun.
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 (fair woman), 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 63 | punct |
| 2 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 lived | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 63 | punct |
| 4 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ago | advmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 woman | acl |
| 10 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 lived | advmod |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 sun. | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun. | det |
| 15 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a fair woman not said here | Nipon xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a fair woman | 63 | the sun. | ago, always property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near sun.=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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