Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 40
[69] Lox, the Indian Devil, is the worst beast in the woods.
Who acts: 69 Lox · What happens: be · To what, where: worst beast, woods
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 (69 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lox | punct |
| 2 | 69 | 69 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Lox | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 69 | punct |
| 4 | Lox | lox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beast | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Devil | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Devil | det |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Devil | amod |
| 8 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lox | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lox | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beast | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 12 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 beast | amod |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 woods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woods | det |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beast | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 69 Lox | the worst beast | the woods | 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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