Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 7, sentence 92
Now to this very day They find the bones of these beavers; There are many on Unamagik, Their teeth are six inches wide, There are no such beavers to-day!
Who acts: beavers, six inches, teeth, such beavers · What happens: find, be · To what, where: bones, many, Unamagik, six inches
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 (beavers, six inches, teeth, such beavers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 find | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl |
| 6 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bones | det |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beavers | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 beavers | det |
| 12 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bones | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 are | punct |
| 14 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 are | expl |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | conj |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 are | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 Unamagik | case |
| 18 | Unamagik | Unamagik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inches | punct |
| 20 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 inches | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 inches | cop |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 inches | nummod |
| 24 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 are | nsubj |
| 25 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 inches | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 are | punct |
| 27 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 are | expl |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 beavers | det |
| 30 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beavers | amod |
| 31 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 are | nsubj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 to | punct |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beavers | nmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | beavers = beaver | the bones of this beavers | now; day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic | |||
| 2 | does | present | six inches | many | Unamagik; there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | beavers's teeth | six inches | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | does | present | no such beavers to day | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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