Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 28
A monster of a fish; There was not his like in the sea.
Who acts: monster · What happens: not be
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 monster | det |
| 2 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sea | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monster | nmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 7 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sea | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sea | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sea | nmod:poss |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | a monster of a fish | like monster's sea | tree rules |
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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