Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 56
The A. stem _oñdoka_, “tell,” is clearly a metathesis of the same root.
Who acts: A. stem · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: metathesis · Speech: someone speaks here
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. stem), 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 stem | det |
| 2 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stem | compound |
| 3 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metathesis | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 oñdoka | punct |
| 5 | oñdoka | oñdoka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 stem | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 oñdoka | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stem | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stem | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stem | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 metathesis | cop |
| 13 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 15 metathesis | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 metathesis | det |
| 15 | metathesis | metathesis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 root | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 root | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 root | amod |
| 19 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metathesis | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 metathesis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the A. stem | a metathesis | of the same root; clearly property | 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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