Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 24
_ Methinks by the look Of the clouds that the wind may be South-westerly!
Who acts: clouds · What happens: wind, be · To what, where: Methinks
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Methinks | punct |
| 2 | Methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 look | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Methinks | nmod |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 clouds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clouds | det |
| 8 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wind | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 westerly | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 westerly | cop |
| 14 | South | south | ADV | _ | 16 westerly | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 South | punct |
| 16 | westerly | westerly | ADV | _ | 2 Methinks | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Methinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind | the clouds | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | may | south, westerly property | 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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