Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 131
Here, however, I avail myself of the assistance and authority of my _collaborateur_, J. Dyneley Prince, who as these pages witness, has seriously studied the eastern Algonkin dialects, especially the idiom of the Canadian Abenakis.
Who acts: I, J. · What happens: avail, study · To what, where: myself, eastern Algonkin dialects
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, J.), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 avail | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 avail | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 avail | nsubj |
| 6 | avail | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 avail | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 assistance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 assistance | det |
| 10 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 myself | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 authority | cc |
| 12 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assistance | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 collaborateur | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 collaborateur | nmod:poss |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 collaborateur | punct |
| 16 | collaborateur | collaborateur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 authority | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 assistance | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 J. | punct |
| 19 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 assistance | conj |
| 20 | Dyneley | Dyneley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 J. | flat |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 J. | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 studied | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 studied | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 witness | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 witness | det |
| 26 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 witness | compound |
| 27 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 studied | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 witness | punct |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 studied | aux |
| 30 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 31 studied | advmod |
| 31 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 J. | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dialects | det |
| 33 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dialects | amod |
| 34 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 dialects | compound |
| 35 | dialects | dialect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 studied | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 idiom | punct |
| 37 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 39 idiom | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 idiom | det |
| 39 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dialects | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Abenakis | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Abenakis | det |
| 42 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Abenakis | amod |
| 43 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 39 idiom | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 avail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avail | present | I | myself | here | however property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | study | present · perfect | J. | the eastern Algonkin dialects | as this pages witness; seriously property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent dialect=Theme as witness=Value |
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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