Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
[3] Amerindian is a term invented and used by the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution, to denote aboriginal American races and languages.
Who acts: 3 Amerindian · What happens: be, invent, use, denote · To what, where: term, aboriginal American races
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 (3 Amerindian), 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 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Amerindian | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | Amerindian | amerindian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 term | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 term | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 term | det |
| 7 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 term | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 invented | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Americanists | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Americanists | det |
| 13 | Americanists | Americanist | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 used | obl:agent |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Institution | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Institution | det |
| 16 | Smithsonian | Smithsonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Institution | compound |
| 17 | Institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Americanists | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 denote | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 denote | mark |
| 20 | denote | denote | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 term | parataxis |
| 21 | aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 races | amod |
| 22 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 races | amod |
| 23 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 denote | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 languages | cc |
| 25 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 races | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 term | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 3 Amerindian | a term | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | participle | a term not said here | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | participle | the Americanists of the Smithsonian Institution obl:agent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | denote | to-infinitive | aboriginal American races and languages | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot race=Topic |
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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