Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 17, sentence 62
There they lived and were perfectly happy, Nothing but kind words passed between them, Only kind words and favorite songs.
Who acts: branches · What happens: live, be, pass · To what, where: kind words
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 (branches), 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 | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happy | cc |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nothing | punct |
| 9 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happy | conj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 words | cc |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | conj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 words | acl |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 words | punct |
| 17 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 19 words | advmod |
| 18 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 words | amod |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 words | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 songs | cc |
| 21 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 songs | amod |
| 22 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 words | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | branches = branch | there | kind words and kind words and favorite songs conj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | branches = branch not said here | happy, perfectly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | branches = branch not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pass | participle | kind words and kind words and favorite songs not said here | between branches = branch | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=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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