Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 54
I am not as I was before, but have the power to move And climb from ledge to ledge as doth a worm, upon my head.
Who acts: I, power · What happens: not be, have, move, climb, ledge, do · To what, where: power, ledge, worm
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: who acts (I, power), 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 | 7 before | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 before | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 before | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 before | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 before | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 before | cop |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 before | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 power | det |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climb | cc |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 move | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 ledge | case |
| 18 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ledge | mark |
| 20 | ledge | ledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 climb | advcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 doth | case |
| 22 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ledge | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 worm | det |
| 24 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 doth | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 head | punct |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ledge | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 before | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | the power not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb | infinitive | the power not said here | ledge | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ledge=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | ledge | to-infinitive | the power not said here | upon my head | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | present | the power not said here | a worm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Eventuality |
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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