Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 238
Plîgun, “Cape Split” (P.); M. plekteok, “large handspikes for breaking open a beaver dam.”
Who acts: large handspikes, Plîgun · What happens: break, open · To what, where: beaver dam
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 (large handspikes, Plîgun), 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 | Plîgun | Plîgun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 open | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Split | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Split | punct |
| 4 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Split | compound |
| 5 | Split | Split | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Plîgun | appos |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Split | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 P. | punct |
| 8 | P. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Plîgun | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 P. | punct |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 plekteok | punct |
| 11 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plekteok | compound |
| 12 | plekteok | plekteok | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plîgun | list |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 handspikes | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 handspikes | punct |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 handspikes | amod |
| 16 | handspikes | handspike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Plîgun | conj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 breaking | mark |
| 18 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 handspikes | acl |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dam | det |
| 21 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dam | compound |
| 22 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | gerund | large handspikes not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | open in a quote | infinitive | Plîgun M. plekteok and large handspikes | a beaver dam | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dam=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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