Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 1
There was a woman, long, long ago, She came out of a pit In which dead people were buried; She made her home in a tree; She was dressed in leaves; All long, long ago.
Who acts: woman · What happens: be, come out, bury, make, dress · To what, where: pit, dead people, home, tree, woman, leaves
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ago | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pit | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pit | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pit | det |
| 16 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 buried | obl |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 buried | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 buried | aux:pass |
| 22 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pit | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 dressed | punct |
| 32 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 dressed | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 dressed | aux:pass |
| 34 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 came | advcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 leaves | case |
| 36 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 dressed | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 long | punct |
| 38 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ago | punct |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 ago | advmod |
| 42 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a woman | there | ago property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come out | past | woman | a pit | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient pit=Result | ||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | dead people | a pit | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past | woman | woman's home | a tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product | |||
| 5 | dress | past · passive | woman | leaves | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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