Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 78
Nittle metewagʾn-mel osagmamwal nikt gaptinek wiwunik apwihtowatijil ya te chikihigʾnʾl kelnajit ayat na tan teppo yot kegus ewabligik quasijik kemenia pekusek wʾtachwi pekiyawal.
Who acts: kegus ewabligik · What happens: pekusek · To what, where: Nittle metewagʾn mel
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 (kegus ewabligik), 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 | Nittle | Nittle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mel | compound |
| 2 | metewagʾn | metewagʾn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mel | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 metewagʾn | punct |
| 4 | mel | mel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | osagmamwal | osagmamwal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 apwihtowatijil | amod |
| 6 | nikt | nikt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gaptinek | compound |
| 7 | gaptinek | gaptinek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiwunik | compound |
| 8 | wiwunik | wiwunik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apwihtowatijil | compound |
| 9 | apwihtowatijil | apwihtowatijil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mel | nmod |
| 10 | ya | ya | X | _ | 11 te | compound |
| 11 | te | te | X | _ | 9 apwihtowatijil | appos |
| 12 | chikihigʾnʾl | chikihigʾnʾl | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ayat | amod |
| 13 | kelnajit | kelnajit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ayat | compound |
| 14 | ayat | ayat | X | _ | 11 te | goeswith |
| 15 | na | na | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 ayat | flat:foreign |
| 16 | tan | tan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pekusek | amod |
| 17 | teppo | teppo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yot | compound |
| 18 | yot | yot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kegus | compound |
| 19 | kegus | kegus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ewabligik | compound |
| 20 | ewabligik | ewabligik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pekusek | nsubj |
| 21 | quasijik | quasijik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pekusek | compound |
| 22 | kemenia | kemenia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pekusek | compound |
| 23 | pekusek | pekusek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ayat | conj |
| 24 | wʾtachwi | wʾtachwi | X | _ | 25 pekiyawal | compound |
| 25 | pekiyawal | pekiyawal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pekusek | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pekusek | kegus ewabligik | wʾtachwi pekiyawal conj | 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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