Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 79
Its sides were very steep, Ragged with rocks and holes And terrible with trees And rough with snow and ice.
Who acts: sides · What happens: be
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 (sides), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sides | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 steep | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 steep | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 steep | advmod |
| 5 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ragged | punct |
| 7 | Ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steep | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rocks | case |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Ragged | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 holes | cc |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rocks | conj |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 terrible | cc |
| 13 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steep | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 terrible | obl |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rough | cc |
| 17 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steep | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rough | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ice | cc |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snow | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 steep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hill's sides | steep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | hill's sides not said here | with rocks and holes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | hill's sides not said here | with trees | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | hill's sides not said here | with snow and ice | 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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