Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 60
The modern form of the word is _Alsigontekw_, which the Indians wrongly connect with _als_, “shell,” and translate “river where shells abound.”
Who acts: modern form, Indians, shells · What happens: be, connect, translate, abound, form · To what, where: Alsigontekw, river, word
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 (modern form, Indians, shells), 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 form | det |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 form | amod |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Alsigontekw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Alsigontekw | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alsigontekw | punct |
| 9 | Alsigontekw | Alsigontekw | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alsigontekw | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 connect | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 connect | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indians | det |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 connect | nsubj |
| 15 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 16 connect | advmod |
| 16 | connect | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Alsigontekw | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 als | case |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 als | punct |
| 19 | als | al | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 connect | obl |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 connect | discourse |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shell | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 shell | punct |
| 23 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Alsigontekw | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alsigontekw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 translate | cc |
| 27 | translate | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Alsigontekw | conj |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 river | punct |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 translate | obj |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 abound | advmod |
| 31 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 abound | nsubj |
| 32 | abound | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 river | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alsigontekw | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alsigontekw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the modern form of the word | Alsigontekw | shell appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | connect | present | the Indians | Alsigontekw | with als; wrongly property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent which=Patient with al=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | translate | infinitive | the modern form of the word not said here | river | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 4 | abound in a quote | present | shells | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | form | the word | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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