Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 37
Yet I think in time he recovered, For since then, he very often Has appeared among the people-- Lox, The Indian Devil, The Indian Devil Lox.
Who acts: I, Lox · What happens: think, recover, appear · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Lox), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 think | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 recovered | nsubj |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 9 | For | for | ADP | _ | 11 then | case |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 then | case |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 appeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 often | advmod |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | Has | Have | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 appeared | aux |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | conj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appeared | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lox | punct |
| 22 | Lox | Lox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 people | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Devil | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Devil | det |
| 25 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Devil | amod |
| 26 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lox | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Lox | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Lox | det |
| 29 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Lox | amod |
| 30 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Lox | compound |
| 31 | Lox | Lox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lox | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | recover | past | Lox | time not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | perfect | Lox | among the people; often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location |
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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