Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 98
Now this is all the truth, And ’twas a wondrous thing, As ever yet was told.
Who acts: this, wondrous thing · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: truth, As · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, wondrous thing), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 truth | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 truth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 truth | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 truth | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twas | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 twas | cc |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 twas | expl |
| 10 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 truth | appos |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twas | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 As | punct |
| 15 | As | As | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obl |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 yet | advmod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 told | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux:pass |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | all truth | now | twas ’ appos | tree rules | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | a wondrous thing not said here | As | yet; ever | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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