Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 138
I regret that I have not the Penobscot song in which the division of the Boston hill is described, but I believe that it exists.
Who acts: I, division · What happens: regret, have, describe, believe, exist · To what, where: Penobscot song, division · Speech: someone speaks here
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, division), 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 | 2 regret | nsubj |
| 2 | regret | regret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 regret | advcl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 song | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 8 | Penobscot | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 song | compound |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 described | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 division | det |
| 13 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 described | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hill | det |
| 16 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hill | compound |
| 17 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 division | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 described | aux:pass |
| 19 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 song | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 believe | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 believe | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 regret | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 exists | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 exists | nsubj |
| 26 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 believe | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 regret | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regret | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | the Penobscot song | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient | ||||
| 3 | describe | present · passive | the division of the Boston hill | the Penobscot song | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | exist | present | division | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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