Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 141
Then, while they smoked and laughed, The man of the house beheld The skin which the other bore Of Espuns, the Raccoon, And said with curious air: “_He kekw nit?
Who acts: hands, man, skin, _ · What happens: smoke, laugh, behold, bore, say, kekw · To what, where: skin, nit · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hands, man, skin, _), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 smoked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoked | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 smoked | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smoked | nsubj |
| 5 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laughed | cc |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smoked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beheld | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smoked | conj |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 bore | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bore | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bore | amod |
| 20 | bore | bore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skin | conj |
| 21 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Espuns | case |
| 22 | Espuns | Espun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 bore | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Raccoon | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Raccoon | det |
| 25 | Raccoon | Raccoon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Espuns | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smoked | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 air | case |
| 30 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 air | amod |
| 31 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 kekw | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 kekw | punct |
| 34 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kekw | nsubj |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 kekw | nsubj |
| 36 | kekw | kekw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | conj |
| 37 | nit | nit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kekw | obj |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 smoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | past | hands = hand | then | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | hands = hand not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | the man of the house | the skin and the other bore | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bore | the skin and the other bore | of Espuns the Raccoon | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | with curious air | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with air=Manner | |||||
| 6 | kekw in a quote | past | _ | nit | man nsubj | tree rules |
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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