Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 25

This is shown in the conception of the young magician, or poet, so gifted though _blind_ that his mother could not determine whether he saw all things by _clairvoyance_ or natural vision.

Who acts: mother, Tamaquah · What happens: show, gift, not determine, see, conceive · To what, where: This, blind _, things, young magician

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Tamaquah), 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	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shown	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shown	aux:pass
3	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 conception	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 conception	det
6	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shown	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 magician	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magician	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 magician	amod
10	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conception	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poet	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 poet	cc
13	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conception	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gifted	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 gifted	advmod
16	gifted	gift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shown	conj
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 _	mark
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 _	punct
19	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 _	amod
20	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gifted	xcomp
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 determine	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 determine	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 determine	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 determine	advmod
26	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 _	acl:relcl
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 saw	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 determine	ccomp
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 things	det
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 saw	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 clairvoyance	case
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 by	punct
34	clairvoyance	clairvoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obl
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 clairvoyance	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 vision	cc
37	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 vision	amod
38	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 clairvoyance	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present · passive		This	in the conception of the young magician or poet	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in conception=Topic
2	gift	participle		blind _		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	not determine	could	Tamaquah's mother	blind _		tree rules
4	see	past	Tamaquah	all things	by clairvoyance or natural vision	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	conceive			the young magician		nom conception «cognition 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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 25