Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 15, sentence 54
Old Joe Benoit, a friend of mine, Was full of all unholy skill and power.
Who acts: Old Joe · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Joe), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Joe | amod |
| 2 | Joe | Joe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 full | nsubj |
| 3 | Benoit | Benoit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Joe | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Joe | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mine | case |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Joe | punct |
| 10 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 skill | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 skill | det |
| 14 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 skill | amod |
| 15 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 power | cc |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skill | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Old Joe | of all unholy skill and power; full property | 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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