Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 88
All in the olden time, Or in the first of all, Of all things here on earth, Men were as animals And animals as men.
Who acts: Men · What happens: 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 (Men), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 first | punct |
| 7 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 first | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 first | det |
| 10 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 first | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 16 things | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 time | nmod |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 things | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Men | punct |
| 21 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 animals | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 animals | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 animals | case |
| 24 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 things | nmod |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 animals | cc |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 animals | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 animals | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Men | as animals and animals; as men | 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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