Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 87
For there is not a bone in him, Yet every spring and autumn He is “rolled over with hand-spikes” By order of the Lord; And this is what his name Means in the Micmac tongue.
Who acts: bone, this, order, man · What happens: not be, roll over, be, spike, order, name · To what, where: bone, spring, Lord
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bone, this, order, man), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 is | case |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bone | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bone | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bone | det |
| 6 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bone | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rolled | punct |
| 10 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 rolled | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 spring | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 autumn | cc |
| 14 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spring | conj |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rolled | aux:pass |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 rolled | punct |
| 18 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bone | acl |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 rolled | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 spikes | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spikes | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hand | punct |
| 23 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rolled | obl |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 spikes | punct |
| 25 | By | by | ADP | _ | 26 order | case |
| 26 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spikes | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Lord | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lord | det |
| 29 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 order | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 what | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 what | cc |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 what | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 what | cop |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bone | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 name | nmod:poss |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Means | nsubj |
| 37 | Means | Mean | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 what | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 tongue | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tongue | det |
| 40 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 tongue | compound |
| 41 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Means | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a bone | in man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roll over in a quote | present · passive | a bone not said here | every spring and autumn | with hand spikes by order of the Lord; man nsubj:pass; over property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with spike=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is a | present | this | Means man's name in the Micmac tongue acl:relcl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spike in a quote | order of the Lord | nom spike «event intransitive»: by=agent | ||||||
| 5 | order | the Lord | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | name | man | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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