Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 130
Although not entirely ignorant of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot and Micmac, I am not proficient therein and have chiefly based my work on very careful translations executed by others.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: not be, base, execute, work · To what, where: work, careful translations
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, my), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 4 ignorant | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ignorant | advmod |
| 3 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 ignorant | advmod |
| 4 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 proficient | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Passamaquoddy | case |
| 6 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ignorant | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Penobscot | punct |
| 8 | Penobscot | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Passamaquoddy | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Micmac | cc |
| 10 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Passamaquoddy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ignorant | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 proficient | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 proficient | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 proficient | advmod |
| 15 | proficient | proficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 15 proficient | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 based | cc |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 based | aux |
| 19 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 20 based | advmod |
| 20 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 proficient | conj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 based | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 translations | case |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 careful | advmod |
| 25 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 translations | amod |
| 26 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 based | obl |
| 27 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 translations | acl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 executed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 proficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | proficient, therein property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | base | present · perfect | I not said here | my work | careful translations | chiefly property | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent work=Theme on translation=Source | ||
| 3 | execute | participle | careful translations not said here | by others | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | work | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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