Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
Such is the wonderful highway Running along the river Called Herbert--the road which is named By white men the Boar’s Back, By Indians Onwokun, Which is their word for Causeway.
Who acts: Such wonderful highway, white men, Indians Onwokun · What happens: be, run, call, name · To what, where: Such wonderful highway, river, road, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such wonderful highway, white men, Indians Onwokun), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 highway | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 highway | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 highway | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 highway | amod |
| 5 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 highway | acl |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Running | obl |
| 10 | Called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 river | acl |
| 11 | Herbert | Herbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Called | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 road | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 highway | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 named | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 named | aux:pass |
| 17 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 road | acl:relcl |
| 18 | By | by | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 named | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Boar | det |
| 22 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ’s | nsubj |
| 23 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 men | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 23 ’s | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Onwokun | punct |
| 26 | By | by | ADP | _ | 27 Indians | case |
| 27 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 Onwokun | compound |
| 28 | Onwokun | Onwokun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 named | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 word | punct |
| 30 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 word | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 word | cop |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 word | nmod:poss |
| 33 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Onwokun | appos |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 Causeway | case |
| 35 | Causeway | Causeway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 word | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 highway | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Such wonderful highway and the road | the road conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the Such wonderful highway and the road not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along river=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the river not said here | Herbert xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | name | present · passive | white men | the road | Indians Onwokun obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | present | Indians Onwokun | roads's word | for Causeway; roads = road nmod:poss | 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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