Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 45
From you we learn our country’s early lore, The forest people’s sorrows, joys and fears.
Who acts: we, people · What happens: learn, sorrow · To what, where: early lore
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 (we, people), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 you | case |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 country | nmod:poss |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 country | case |
| 8 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lore | amod |
| 9 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 learn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forest | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lore | appos |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sorrows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 people | case |
| 15 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 forest | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joys | punct |
| 17 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sorrows | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fears | cc |
| 19 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sorrows | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | we | our country's early lore | from you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lore=Topic from you=Source | |||
| 2 | sorrow | people | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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