Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 132
A. _kiwaʿkwa_, a mythical being, similar in form to a man, who inhabited the snows of the far north.
Who acts: man, far north · What happens: be, inhabit, snow · To what, where: form, snows, A. kiwaʿkwa
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, far north), 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 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kiwaʿkwa | compound |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 kiwaʿkwa | punct |
| 3 | kiwaʿkwa | kiwaʿkwa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 kiwaʿkwa | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 similar | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 similar | det |
| 7 | mythical | mythical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 similar | amod |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 similar | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 similar | punct |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kiwaʿkwa | amod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 form | case |
| 12 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 similar | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 similar | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 inhabited | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 inhabited | nsubj |
| 18 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 snows | det |
| 20 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 inhabited | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 north | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 north | det |
| 23 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 north | amod |
| 24 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 snows | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kiwaʿkwa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | form | to a man; similar property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inhabit | past | a man | the snows of the far north | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snow | the far north | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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