Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 141
Nit weswesit wikwak nutch nut holpiyanya yohot na pechi kesosejihi quesquesoos naga pilskwessis naga gana wʾskittapyik.
Who acts: yohot na pechi · What happens: quesquesoo · To what, where: naga pilskwessis naga
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 (yohot na pechi), 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 | Nit | nit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weswesit | compound |
| 2 | weswesit | weswesit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wikwak | compound |
| 3 | wikwak | wikwak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nut | compound |
| 4 | nutch | nutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nut | compound |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yohot | compound |
| 6 | holpiyanya | holpiyanya | X | _ | 7 yohot | compound |
| 7 | yohot | yohot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pechi | compound |
| 8 | na | na | X | _ | 9 pechi | compound |
| 9 | pechi | pechi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quesquesoos | nsubj |
| 10 | kesosejihi | kesosejihi | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 pechi | dep |
| 11 | quesquesoos | quesquesoo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | naga | naga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 naga | compound |
| 13 | pilskwessis | pilskwessis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 naga | compound |
| 14 | naga | naga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quesquesoos | obj |
| 15 | gana | gana | X | _ | 16 wʾskittapyik | compound |
| 16 | wʾskittapyik | wʾskittapyik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 naga | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 quesquesoos | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quesquesoo | present | yohot na pechi | naga pilskwessis naga and gana wʾskittapyik | 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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