Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 31
Oddly enough Kulóskap means “the liar,” from a stem √_klûsk_, “lie” + _ap_, “a man, person, one who stands.”
Who acts: enough Kulóskap · What happens: mean, stand · To what, where: liar, stem √ · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (enough Kulóskap), 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 | Oddly | oddly | ADV | _ | 2 enough | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Kulóskap | amod |
| 3 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 liar | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 liar | det |
| 7 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 liar | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 liar | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 √ | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 √ | det |
| 12 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 √ | compound |
| 13 | √ | √ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 liar | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 klûsk | punct |
| 15 | klûsk | klûsk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 √ | conj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 19 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | parataxis |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 21 | + | + | SYM | _ | 23 ap | cc |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 ap | punct |
| 23 | ap | AP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 ap | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 person | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 person | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 person | nmod:poss |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 man | punct |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ap | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 person | appos |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 stands | nsubj |
| 34 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 one | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 ap | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | enough Kulóskap | the liar | a stem √ and klûsk | lie + ap and a man's person parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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