Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 128
I have endeavored to represent this peculiarity in the English version by not adhering too strictly to an unvarying measure.
Who acts: I · What happens: endeavor, represent, not adhere · To what, where: peculiarity
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 endeavored | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 endeavored | aux |
| 3 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 represent | mark |
| 5 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 endeavored | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 peculiarity | det |
| 7 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 represent | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 version | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 version | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 version | amod |
| 11 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 represent | obl |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 adhering | mark |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 adhering | advmod |
| 14 | adhering | adhere | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 represent | advcl |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 strictly | advmod |
| 16 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 14 adhering | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 measure | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 measure | det |
| 19 | unvarying | unvarying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 measure | amod |
| 20 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 adhering | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endeavored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavor | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | I not said here | this peculiarity | in the English version | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot peculiarity=Theme in version=Attribute | |||
| 3 | not adhere | gerund | I not said here | to a unvarying measure; strictly property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to measure=Co-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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