Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 310
Wîwĭlmekw, a Pass. horned monster, living in the water.
Who acts: horned monster · What happens: live · To what, where: water, horned monster
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 (horned monster), 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 | Wîwĭlmekw | Wîwĭlmekw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 monster | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pass | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Pass | det |
| 4 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wîwĭlmekw | appos |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pass | punct |
| 6 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 living | punct |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 monster | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | horned monster Wîwĭlmekw not said here | the water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
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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