Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 149
_Lappilatwan_ properly means a tree-fungus, but the word is applied to this bird because it sits in the branches without moving.
Who acts: Lappilatwan, word · What happens: mean, apply, sit, move · To what, where: tree fungus, word, branches
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 (Lappilatwan, word), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 2 | Lappilatwan | Lappilatwan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lappilatwan | punct |
| 4 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fungus | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fungus | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 9 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 applied | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 applied | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 word | det |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 applied | aux:pass |
| 15 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 means | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 applied | obl |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 sits | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sits | nsubj |
| 21 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 applied | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 branches | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 branches | det |
| 24 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sits | obl |
| 25 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 26 moving | mark |
| 26 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sits | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Lappilatwan | a tree fungus | properly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=Topic | |||
| 2 | apply | present · passive | the word | to this bird | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | word | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location | ||||
| 4 | move | gerund | word not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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