Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 176
Old Delaware, _meteú_, “a medicine doctor”; also a turkey cock, from the drumming of its wings.
Who acts: wings · What happens: drum · To what, where: Old Delaware
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 (wings), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Delaware | amod |
| 2 | Delaware | delaware | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 meteú | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 meteú | punct |
| 5 | meteú | meteú | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Delaware | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 meteú | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doctor | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doctor | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 doctor | det |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doctor | compound |
| 11 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Delaware | appos |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doctor | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 cock | punct |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 cock | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cock | det |
| 16 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cock | compound |
| 17 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Delaware | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drumming | punct |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 drumming | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 drumming | det |
| 21 | drumming | drumming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Delaware | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wings | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wings | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drumming | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Delaware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | drum | drumming's wings | nom drumming «act 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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