Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
Yes, ’twas a rattling dance!
To what, where: twas
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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 twas | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 twas | punct |
| 4 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dance | det |
| 6 | rattling | rattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | compound |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twas | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 twas | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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