Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 152
Nitte kes yapasitit nitte pesgowat peskutenil ech-wechi kʾchich yot lusoweskw eliyit kis gwandowanek.
Who acts: Nitte, yot · What happens: ke, lusoweskw · To what, where: peskutenil ech wechi, kʾchich
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 (Nitte, yot), 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 | Nitte | Nitte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kes | nsubj |
| 2 | kes | ke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yapasitit | yapasitit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nitte | compound |
| 4 | nitte | nitte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pesgowat | compound |
| 5 | pesgowat | pesgowat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peskutenil | compound |
| 6 | peskutenil | peskutenil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wechi | compound |
| 7 | ech | ech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wechi | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ech | punct |
| 9 | wechi | wechi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kes | obj |
| 10 | kʾchich | kʾchich | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lusoweskw | obj |
| 11 | yot | yot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lusoweskw | nsubj |
| 12 | lusoweskw | lusoweskw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wechi | acl:relcl |
| 13 | eliyit | eliyit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kis | amod |
| 14 | kis | ki | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gwandowanek | compound |
| 15 | gwandowanek | gwandowanek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lusoweskw | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ke | present | Nitte | peskutenil ech wechi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lusoweskw | past | yot | kʾchich | kis gwandowanek obj | 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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