Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 118
Wonderful traditions Of the olden time; Very old indeed, Ere the world began:
Who acts: Wonderful traditions · What happens: begin
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 (Wonderful traditions), 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 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traditions | amod |
| 2 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 began | nsubj |
| 3 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traditions | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
| 8 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 9 old | advmod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traditions | amod |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 old | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ere | punct |
| 12 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 traditions | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traditions | nmod |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Wonderful traditions of the olden time the world and Ere | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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