Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 19
To which his answer was “It is Ketaksuwauʿt That is the Spirits’ Road” (Meaning the Milky Way).
Who acts: answer, That, Ketaksuwauʿt, boy · What happens: be, mean, answer · To what, where: Ketaksuwauʿt, Road, Milky Way, answer
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 (answer, That, Ketaksuwauʿt, boy), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 answer | obl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 answer | nmod:poss |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | cop |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | cop |
| 9 | Ketaksuwauʿt | Ketaksuwauʿt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nmod |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Road | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Road | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Spirits | det |
| 13 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Road | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 Spirits | case |
| 15 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Road | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Meaning | punct |
| 18 | Meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Ketaksuwauʿt | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Way | det |
| 20 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Way | amod |
| 21 | Way | Way | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Meaning | obj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Way | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | answer | Ketaksuwauʿt | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | the Spirits's Road | the Spirits nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | mean | gerund | Ketaksuwauʿt not said here | the Milky Way | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | answer | boy | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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