Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 69
_Appodumken_ is identical with A. _Waodumkenowat_, who plugs the eyes, ears, and nostrils of drowned corpses with mud.
Who acts: Appodumken _, Waodumkenowat · What happens: be, plug, drown · To what, where: eyes
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 (Appodumken _, Waodumkenowat), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 identical | punct |
| 2 | Appodumken | Appodumken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | compound |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identical | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 identical | cop |
| 5 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 A. | case |
| 7 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 identical | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Waodumkenowat | punct |
| 9 | Waodumkenowat | Waodumkenowat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 identical | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Waodumkenowat | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plugs | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 plugs | nsubj |
| 13 | plugs | plug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Waodumkenowat | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plugs | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ears | punct |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eyes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 nostrils | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nostrils | cc |
| 20 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eyes | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 corpses | case |
| 22 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 corpses | amod |
| 23 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 nostrils | nmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 mud | case |
| 25 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 corpses | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 identical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Appodumken _ | with A.; Waodumkenowat obl; identical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plug | present | Waodumkenowat | the eyes and ears and nostrils of drowned corpses with mud | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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