Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 73
His mouth with stringy lips Went well from ear to ear; His feet were broad and flat, With toes immensely long-- He was marvellous to behold!
Who acts: mouth, feet · What happens: go, be · To what, where: ear
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 (mouth, feet), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Went | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lips | case |
| 4 | stringy | stringy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lips | amod |
| 5 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mouth | nmod |
| 6 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 Went | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Went | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 broad | punct |
| 13 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broad | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broad | cop |
| 16 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Went | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flat | cc |
| 18 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 broad | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 toes | punct |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 21 toes | case |
| 21 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broad | conj |
| 22 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 toes | advmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 marvellous | punct |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 marvellous | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 marvellous | cop |
| 27 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Went | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 behold | case |
| 29 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 27 marvellous | discourse |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | messenger's mouth with stringy lips | ear | to ear; well property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial_Location to ear=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | messenger's feet | toes conj; broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | messenger's feet not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | mouth | marvellous 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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