Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 55
Their faces were smooth and flat; So it came that the Porcupine And Toad, are to this day Noseless among the beasts.
Who acts: faces, nose · What happens: be, come · To what, where: Porcupine
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faces, nose), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 faces | nmod:poss |
| 2 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smooth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smooth | cop |
| 4 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flat | cc |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smooth | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smooth | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 Porcupine | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Porcupine | det |
| 13 | Porcupine | Porcupine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Toad | cc |
| 15 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Porcupine | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 day | cop |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 21 | Noseless | noseless | ADV | _ | 20 day | advmod |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 beasts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beasts | det |
| 24 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 day | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | witches's faces | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | witches's faces not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | nose | the Porcupine and Toad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | to this day | among the beasts; noseless property | 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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