Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 80
We make a road for Spirits, A road for the Great Spirit.
Who acts: We · What happens: make · To what, where: road
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), 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 | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Spirits | case |
| 6 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 road | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 road | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 road | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Spirit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Spirit | det |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Spirit | amod |
| 13 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 road | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | We | a road and a road for the Great Spirit | for Spirits | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent road=Product for spirit=Asset |
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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