Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 52
The _noochila-kalwet_ or herald went about the village crying _wikw-poosaltin_, which was intelligible to all.
Who acts: kalwet _, wikw poosaltin · What happens: go, cry, be
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 (kalwet _, wikw poosaltin), 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 | 6 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 _ | punct |
| 3 | noochila | noochila | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kalwet | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 noochila | punct |
| 5 | kalwet | kalwet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | compound |
| 6 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 herald | cc |
| 8 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | conj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 poosaltin | csubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 crying | punct |
| 15 | wikw | wikw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poosaltin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wikw | punct |
| 17 | poosaltin | poosaltin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 village | acl:relcl |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 poosaltin | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 intelligible | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 intelligible | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 intelligible | cop |
| 22 | intelligible | intelligible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 poosaltin | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 intelligible | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the kalwet _ or herald | about the village wikw poosaltin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about village=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | wikw poosaltin | to all; intelligible property | 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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