Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 52
How lovely was the silver moon!
What happens: be · To what, where: lovely silver moon
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 lovely | advmod |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moon | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moon | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moon | compound |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lovely silver moon | 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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