Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
The consonants are equivalent to the same consonants in English, except that _ñ_ represents the French nasal _n_ in _mon_, and the final combination _kw_ or final _q_ must be uttered as a _k_ followed by _w_ accompanied by a gentle indeterminate short vowel.
Who acts: consonants, ñ _ · What happens: be, represent, utter, follow, accompany · To what, where: q, w
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 (consonants, ñ _), 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 consonants | det |
| 2 | consonants | consonant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 equivalent | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 equivalent | cop |
| 4 | equivalent | equivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 consonants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 consonants | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 consonants | amod |
| 8 | consonants | consonant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 equivalent | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 English | case |
| 10 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 consonants | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 represents | punct |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 represents | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 that | punct |
| 15 | ñ | ñ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 _ | compound |
| 16 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 represents | nsubj |
| 17 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 equivalent | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nasal | det |
| 19 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nasal | amod |
| 20 | nasal | nasal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 represents | ccomp |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 n | punct |
| 22 | n | n | X | _ | 20 nasal | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 n | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mon | case |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 n | nmod |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 n | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 combination | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 combination | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 combination | det |
| 31 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 combination | amod |
| 32 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 equivalent | parataxis |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 kw | punct |
| 34 | kw | kw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 combination | conj |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 combination | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 final | cc |
| 37 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 equivalent | conj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 uttered | punct |
| 39 | q | Q | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 uttered | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 q | punct |
| 41 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 uttered | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 uttered | aux:pass |
| 43 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 equivalent | parataxis |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 k | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 k | det |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 k | punct |
| 47 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 uttered | obl |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 49 followed | punct |
| 49 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 uttered | parataxis |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 w | case |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 50 by | punct |
| 52 | w | w | PROPN | Typo=Yes | 49 followed | obl:agent |
| 53 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 52 w | punct |
| 54 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 w | acl |
| 55 | by | by | ADP | _ | 60 vowel | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 vowel | det |
| 57 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 vowel | amod |
| 58 | indeterminate | indeterminate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 vowel | amod |
| 59 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 vowel | amod |
| 60 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 accompanied | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 equivalent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the consonants | to the same consonants in English; the final combination and kw parataxis; equivalent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | ñ _ | except that | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | the consonants not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | must · passive | q | as a k | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S» | ||||
| 5 | follow | participle | w obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | accompany | participle | w not said here | by a gentle indeterminate short vowel | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by vowel=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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