Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
There are many nice women a-waiting, ’Tis evil living alone.”
Who acts: many nice women, Tis evil · What happens: be, live
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many nice women, Tis evil), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 waiting | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 11 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 evil | compound |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 women | conj |
| 13 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 evil | acl |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 living | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | many nice women a waiting and Tis evil | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | Tis evil not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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