Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 86
Chibelaʿkwe, “night air sprite,” a monster consisting solely of head and legs, without a body.
Who acts: monster · What happens: consist · To what, where: head, Chibelaʿkwe
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 (monster), 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 | Chibelaʿkwe | Chibelaʿkwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprite | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprite | punct |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | compound |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprite | compound |
| 6 | sprite | sprite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chibelaʿkwe | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chibelaʿkwe | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chibelaʿkwe | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 monster | det |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chibelaʿkwe | appos |
| 11 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 monster | acl |
| 12 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 14 head | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consisting | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 legs | cc |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 head | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 body | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 body | det |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consisting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chibelaʿkwe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | gerund | a monster not said here | head and legs | without a body | 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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