Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 24
The word ‘a’ was added to ‘... in a pickle ...’
Who acts: word · What happens: add, ‘ · To what, where: ’, word
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 added | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ’ | det |
| 5 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 added | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 added | aux:pass |
| 7 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 word | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ‘ | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 added | xcomp |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 pickle | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pickle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pickle | det |
| 13 | pickle | pickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | appos |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 pickle | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 pickle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past · passive | the word not said here | a ’ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ‘ | infinitive | the word not said here | 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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