Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 149
[53] This song is very interesting, as indicating a survival of the old Indian faith in their magicians as superior to Christian power.
What happens: be, indicate, survive · To what, where: survival, old Indian faith
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 53 | punct |
| 2 | 53 | 53 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 interesting | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 53 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 53 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 interesting | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 interesting | advmod |
| 8 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 indicating | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 indicating | mark |
| 11 | indicating | indicate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 interesting | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 survival | det |
| 13 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indicating | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 faith | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faith | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faith | amod |
| 17 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 faith | amod |
| 18 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 survival | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 magicians | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 magicians | nmod:poss |
| 21 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 faith | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 superior | case |
| 23 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 indicating | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 power | case |
| 25 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 power | amod |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 superior | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 53 this song obl; interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | indicate | gerund | a survival of the old Indian faith in families's magicians | as superior to Christian power | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot survival=Topic | ||||
| 3 | survive | the old Indian faith in families's magicians | nom survival «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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