Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 51
The A. word is _segoñgw_, “skunk,” from a cognitive of which, viz., Ojibwe, [_=ž_]_ikág_, is derived the English “skunk,” and the city-name “Chicago,” “place of skunks”!
Who acts: A. word · What happens: be, derive · To what, where: segoñgw
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 (A. word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 word | compound |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 segoñgw | cop |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 segoñgw | punct |
| 6 | segoñgw | segoñgw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 segoñgw | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skunk | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 skunk | punct |
| 10 | skunk | skunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cognitive | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cognitive | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 cognitive | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cognitive | det |
| 15 | cognitive | cognitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 viz | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 viz | punct |
| 19 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cognitive | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cognitive | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ojibwe | punct |
| 22 | Ojibwe | Ojibwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 24 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 26 | = | = | SYM | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 27 | ž | ž | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | appos |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 27 ž | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 ikág | punct |
| 31 | ikág | ikág | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 segoñgw | appos |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 ikág | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 segoñgw | punct |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 derived | aux:pass |
| 35 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 skunk | det |
| 37 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 skunk | compound |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 skunk | punct |
| 39 | skunk | skunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 derived | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 skunk | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 skunk | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 name | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 name | det |
| 44 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 name | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 city | punct |
| 46 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 skunk | conj |
| 47 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Chicago | punct |
| 48 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 name | appos |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Chicago | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Chicago | punct |
| 51 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 place | punct |
| 52 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 name | parataxis |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 skunks | case |
| 54 | skunks | skunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 place | nmod |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 place | punct |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the A. word | segoñgw and skunk and Ojibwe | skunk conj; a cognitive and viz of a cognitive and viz of a cognitive parataxis; Ojibwe conj; ž appos; ikág appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | derive | present · passive | segoñgw and skunk and Ojibwe | the English skunk and the city name place of skunks obj | 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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