Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 111
Tan etuchi wʾskinoos pewatek oniswitijil en wʾtakin-wetowan wʾnikigo naga tan yotʾl pawatgil nika nio nitaskowtitiesil netch woot kʾtakw-hemoos wʾtakinwetuwan wʾtelnapem nit skawen waplithodmuk nittech tekw-chetunia.
Who acts: Tan, wʾnikigo naga, nika, kʾtakw hemoos · What happens: wʾskinoo, pawatgil, hemoo, wʾtakinwetuwan · To what, where: pewatek, wʾtelnapem nit
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tan, wʾnikigo naga, nika, kʾtakw hemoos), 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 | Tan | Tan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wʾskinoos | nsubj |
| 2 | etuchi | etuchi | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Tan | dep |
| 3 | wʾskinoos | wʾskinoo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pewatek | pewatek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wʾskinoos | obj |
| 5 | oniswitijil | oniswitijil | ADP | _ | 6 en | case |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pawatgil | obl |
| 7 | wʾtakin | wʾtakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wetowan | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wʾtakin | punct |
| 9 | wetowan | wetowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wʾnikigo | compound |
| 10 | wʾnikigo | wʾnikigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 naga | compound |
| 11 | naga | naga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pawatgil | nsubj |
| 12 | tan | tan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pawatgil | amod |
| 13 | yotʾl | yotʾl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pawatgil | compound |
| 14 | pawatgil | pawatgil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wʾskinoos | obl |
| 15 | nika | nika | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 hemoos | nsubj |
| 16 | nio | nio | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 nika | flat:foreign |
| 17 | nitaskowtitiesil | nitaskowtitiesil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 netch | compound |
| 18 | netch | netch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 woot | compound |
| 19 | woot | woot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hemoos | nsubj |
| 20 | kʾtakw | kʾtakw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hemoos | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 kʾtakw | punct |
| 22 | hemoos | hemoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wʾtakinwetuwan | nsubj |
| 23 | wʾtakinwetuwan | wʾtakinwetuwan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pawatgil | acl:relcl |
| 24 | wʾtelnapem | wʾtelnapem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nit | compound |
| 25 | nit | nit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wʾtakinwetuwan | obj |
| 26 | skawen | skawen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 nit | flat |
| 27 | waplithodmuk | waplithodmuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nit | conj |
| 28 | nittech | nittech | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chetunia | amod |
| 29 | tekw | tekw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chetunia | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 tekw | punct |
| 31 | chetunia | chetunia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waplithodmuk | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wʾskinoos | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wʾskinoo | present | Tan | pewatek | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pawatgil | wʾnikigo naga | oniswitijil en | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hemoo | nika | netch woot nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wʾtakinwetuwan | present | kʾtakw hemoos | wʾtelnapem nit and waplithodmuk and nittech tekw chetunia | 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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