Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 10
These Indians occupy lands in the Muskogee Agency, situated in the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: occupy, situate · To what, where: lands, Muskogee Agency, northwestern part
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 occupy | nsubj |
| 3 | occupy | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occupy | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Agency | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Agency | det |
| 7 | Muskogee | Muskogee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Agency | compound |
| 8 | Agency | Agency | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lands | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 situated | punct |
| 10 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lands | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | northwestern | northwestern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 situated | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Nation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Nation | det |
| 17 | Cherokee | Cherokee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nation | compound |
| 18 | Nation | Nation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | present | this Indians | lands | the Muskogee Agency | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | situate | participle | lands not said here | the northwestern part of the Cherokee Nation | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in part=Destination |
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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