Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 13
It was Mr. Leland’s important work, “The Algonquin Legends of New England” (Boston, 1885), which inspired me to make my first investigations in this field.
Who acts: coadjutor, Algonquin Legends, my · What happens: be, inspire, make, investigate · To what, where: important work, me, first investigations, field
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coadjutor, Algonquin Legends, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 work | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 work | cop |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Leland | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Leland | Leland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Leland | case |
| 6 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Legends | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Legends | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Legends | det |
| 11 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Legends | compound |
| 12 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 work | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 England | case |
| 14 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 England | flat |
| 15 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Legends | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 England | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Boston | punct |
| 18 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 England | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 1885 | punct |
| 20 | 1885 | 1885 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 Boston | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 Boston | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 inspired | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 inspired | nsubj |
| 24 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Legends | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 inspired | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 inspired | advcl |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 investigations | nmod:poss |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 investigations | amod |
| 30 | investigations | investigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 make | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 field | case |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 field | det |
| 33 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | coadjutor | Leland Mr.'s important work | Leland Mr. nmod:poss; the Algonquin Legends of New England parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inspire | past | the Algonquin Legends of New England | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the Algonquin Legends of New England not said here | my first investigations | this field | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset investigation=Product | |||
| 4 | investigate | my | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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