Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 288
Wâbab, “wampum” (P.); lit., “something white,” from the color of the shells.
What happens: lit · To what, where: color
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: 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 | Wâbab | Wâbab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lit | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wampum | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wampum | punct |
| 4 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wâbab | appos |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wampum | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 P. | punct |
| 7 | P. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wampum | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 P. | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wâbab | punct |
| 10 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lit | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 white | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 white | punct |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 white | nsubj |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lit | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lit | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lit | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 color | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 color | det |
| 20 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lit | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shells | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shells | det |
| 23 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 color | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | participle | the color of the shells | Wâbab compound | 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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