Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 26
The termination -_tegw_, locative _tegok_, always means “river,” but cannot be used separately.
Who acts: termination tegw · What happens: mean, not use · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (termination tegw), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tegw | det |
| 2 | termination | termination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tegw | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 termination | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 tegw | punct |
| 5 | tegw | tegw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 tegw | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 locative | punct |
| 8 | locative | locative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tegw | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tegok | punct |
| 10 | tegok | tegok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tegw | parataxis |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tegok | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tegw | punct |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 means | advmod |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 river | punct |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 river | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 river | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 used | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 used | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 used | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 used | aux:pass |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 means | conj |
| 24 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 23 used | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the termination tegw tegok and locative | river | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic | |||
| 2 | not use | can · passive | the termination tegw tegok and locative not said here | separately property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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