Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 8
_ which means “Good-bye!”-- Or which sounds like it in Indian[29]-- As their ancestor did of yore.
Who acts: ancestor · What happens: mean, sound, do · To what, where: Indian
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 (ancestor), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Good | punct |
| 5 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 means | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bye | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 5 Good | flat |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Good | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Good | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 11 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 sounds | cc |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sounds | nsubj |
| 13 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sounds | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Indian | case |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sounds | obl |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 29 | punct |
| 19 | 29 | 29 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Indian | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 29 | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 22 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ancestor | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ancestor | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sounds | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 yore | case |
| 27 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | which nsubj; good property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | Indian | like plump; which nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in indian=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | men's ancestor | of yore | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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