Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 38
First born were the Miʿkumwessuk The fairies of the forest, The Wʾnâgʾmeswuk, elves, The little men, dwellers in rocks.
What happens: bear, be · To what, where: born Miʿkumwessuk
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 born | advmod |
| 2 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Miʿkumwessuk | amod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Miʿkumwessuk | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Miʿkumwessuk | det |
| 5 | Miʿkumwessuk | Miʿkumwessuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fairies | det |
| 7 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Miʿkumwessuk | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fairies | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | det |
| 13 | Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Miʿkumwessuk | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 elves | punct |
| 15 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 men | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwellers | punct |
| 21 | dwellers | dweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 rocks | case |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dwellers | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wʾnâgʾmeswuk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | first property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the born Miʿkumwessuk | the fairies of the forest nmod; the Wʾnâgʾmeswuk and elves and dwellers in rocks appos | 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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