Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 79
We are the birds of fire We fly across the heaven, Our light is a star.
Who acts: We, light, Our · What happens: be, fly, light · To what, where: birds, fire, heaven, star
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 (We, light, Our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 birds | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 birds | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | nmod |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fire | acl:relcl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 heaven | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heaven | det |
| 11 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 star | punct |
| 13 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 light | nmod:poss |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 star | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 star | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 star | det |
| 17 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 birds | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | We | the birds and a star | of fire | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | present | We | fire not said here | the heaven | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fire=Theme across heaven=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is a | present | Our light | a star | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | light | Our | nom light «phenomenon 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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