Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 14

Mr. Leland was indeed the pioneer in examining the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes, a fact which few scholars seem to recognize.

Who acts: Leland, pioneer, few scholars · What happens: be, examine, seem, recognize · To what, where: pioneer, oral literature, fact

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 (Leland, pioneer, few scholars), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Leland	nmod:desc
2	Leland	Leland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pioneer	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pioneer	cop
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 pioneer	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pioneer	det
6	pioneer	pioneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 examining	mark
8	examining	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 pioneer	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 literature	det
10	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 literature	amod
11	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 examining	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 tribes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tribes	det
14	northeastern	northeastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tribes	amod
15	Algonkin	Algonkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tribes	compound
16	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 literature	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fact	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fact	det
19	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pioneer	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seem	obj
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 scholars	amod
22	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seem	nsubj
23	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fact	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 recognize	mark
25	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seem	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pioneer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Leland Mr.	the pioneer and a fact	a fact conj; indeed property	tree rules
2	examine	gerund	the pioneer and a fact not said here	the oral literature of the northeastern Algonkin tribes		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent literature=Theme
3	seem	present	few scholars	a fact		tree rules
4	recognize	to-infinitive	few scholars not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 2, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 14