Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
And I may here mention that my colleague, while his specialty is the Semitic tongues, also has (like my late friend E. H. Palmer, who professed Arabic at Cambridge) the gift of the Romany and even Shelta, which are as the Latin and Greek of the roads!
Who acts: I, specialty, late friend, Shelta · What happens: mention, be, have, profess, gift · To what, where: colleague, Semitic tongues, late friend, Arabic, Cambridge, Romany
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, specialty, late friend, Shelta), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mention | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mention | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 mention | aux |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 mention | advmod |
| 5 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 colleague | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 colleague | nmod:poss |
| 8 | colleague | colleague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mention | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tongues | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 tongues | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 specialty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | specialty | specialty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tongues | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tongues | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tongues | det |
| 15 | Semitic | semitic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tongues | amod |
| 16 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mention | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 has | advmod |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mention | parataxis |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friend | amod |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 25 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 friend | appos |
| 26 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 E. | flat |
| 27 | Palmer | Palmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 E. | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 professed | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 professed | nsubj |
| 30 | professed | profess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 friend | conj |
| 31 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 professed | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 Cambridge | case |
| 33 | Cambridge | Cambridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 professed | obl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 friend | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 gift | det |
| 36 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Romany | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Romany | det |
| 39 | Romany | romany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gift | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Shelta | cc |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 Shelta | advmod |
| 42 | Shelta | Shelta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Romany | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Latin | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 Latin | nsubj |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 Latin | cop |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 Latin | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Latin | det |
| 48 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Shelta | appos |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Greek | cc |
| 50 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Latin | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 roads | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 roads | det |
| 53 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 Greek | nmod |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | may | I | my colleague | here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | present | book's specialty | the Semitic tongues | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | my late friend | the gift of the Romany and Shelta obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | profess | past | my late friend | Arabic | Cambridge | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent arabic=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | present | Shelta | as the Latin and Greek of the roads; Greek of the roads conj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | gift | the Romany and Shelta | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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