Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 71
Atwusknigess, a Pass. invisible being who occasionally fells trees with a single blow of his stone axe.
Who acts: stone axe · What happens: be, blow
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 (stone axe), 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 | Atwusknigess | Atwusknigess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 invisible | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pass | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Pass | det |
| 4 | Pass | Pass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Atwusknigess | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Atwusknigess | punct |
| 6 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fells | cop |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fells | nsubj |
| 9 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 10 fells | advmod |
| 10 | fells | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invisible | acl:relcl |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fells | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blow | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blow | amod |
| 15 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fells | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 axe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 axe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 axe | compound |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 invisible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | with a single blow of Atwusknigess's stone axe; who nsubj; trees obj; fell, occasionally property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | blow | Atwusknigess's stone axe | nom blow «act 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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