Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 44
This time he had the power; His spell was mightiest, And his strange wizardry The stronger of the two.
Who acts: Master, spell · What happens: have, be, spell · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, spell), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 mightiest | punct |
| 8 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spell | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mightiest | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mightiest | cop |
| 11 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 had | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stronger | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stronger | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wizardry | nmod:poss |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wizardry | amod |
| 16 | wizardry | wizardry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stronger | nsubj |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stronger | det |
| 18 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 two | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stronger | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Master | the power | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Master's spell | mighty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spell | Master | nom spell «state transitive»: 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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