Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 72
Away up in the Tobaic Are two salt water rocks-- That is, they stand by the ocean Near a fresh water stream-- A spot which to the Beaver Had ever been forbidden.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, forbid · To what, where: two salt water rocks, fresh water stream, spot
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 (That), 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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 rocks | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Tobaic | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tobaic | det |
| 5 | Tobaic | Tobaic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 up | obl |
| 6 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rocks | cop |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 rocks | nummod |
| 8 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rocks | compound |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rocks | compound |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stand | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 rocks | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 ocean | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ocean | det |
| 19 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stand | obl |
| 20 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 24 stream | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stream | det |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stream | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stream | compound |
| 24 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stand | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 spot | punct |
| 26 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 spot | det |
| 27 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stream | appos |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 forbidden | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Had | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Had | det |
| 31 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Had | compound |
| 32 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 forbidden | obl |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 forbidden | advmod |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 35 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 spot | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | two salt water rocks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | That | a fresh water stream | by the ocean; rocks = rock nsubj; stand property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | forbid | participle · passive | a spot | ever | to the Beaver Had | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: which=Theme |
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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