Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 312
This word denotes a fabulous eagle which causes the wind by the motion of his wings.
Who acts: word, fabulous eagle, wings · What happens: denote, cause, motion · To what, where: fabulous eagle, wind
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 (word, fabulous eagle, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denotes | nsubj |
| 3 | denotes | denote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 eagle | det |
| 5 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eagle | amod |
| 6 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 denotes | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 causes | nsubj |
| 8 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 motion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 motion | det |
| 13 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causes | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 motion | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 denotes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | denote | present | this word | a fabulous eagle | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eagle=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | a fabulous eagle | the wind | by the motion of eagle's wings | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wind=Patient | |||
| 3 | motion | eagle's wings | nom motion «communication 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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