Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 50
Back in the olden time There was an Indian town In which dwelt two young men, Kekwâjû the Badger, And the other Kâktugwââsis, The Little Thunder.
Who acts: Indian town · What happens: be, dwell · To what, where: two young men
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian town), 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 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 7 was | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
| 6 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 town | acl:relcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwelt | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Kekwâjû | punct |
| 18 | Kekwâjû | Kekwâjû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 men | appos |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Badger | det |
| 20 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kekwâjû | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kâktugwââsis | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Kâktugwââsis | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Kâktugwââsis | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Kâktugwââsis | amod |
| 25 | Kâktugwââsis | Kâktugwââsis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 was | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Thunder | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Thunder | det |
| 28 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Thunder | amod |
| 29 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Kâktugwââsis | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Kâktugwââsis | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Indian town | there | the other Kâktugwââsis parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | a Indian town | two young men | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
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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