Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 43
First, he created All of giant size; Such was the beginning.
Who acts: Kulóskap, Such · What happens: create, be · To what, where: All, beginning
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: who acts (Kulóskap, Such), 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 | 4 created | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 created | nsubj |
| 4 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 created | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 size | case |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 size | amod |
| 8 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 All | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 beginning | punct |
| 10 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 beginning | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beginning | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beginning | det |
| 13 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | Kulóskap | All of giant size | first property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Result | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Such | the beginning | 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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