Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

My own researches have been devoted more to linguistic and phonetic investigations among the Canadian Abenakis than to comparative mythological study--in which, however, I feel a very deep interest.

Who acts: I, My · What happens: devote, feel, research · To what, where: own researches, deep interest

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 (I, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 researches	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 researches	amod
3	researches	research	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 devoted	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 devoted	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 devoted	aux:pass
6	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 linguistic	amod
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 more	obl
9	linguistic	linguistic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devoted	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 investigations	cc
11	phonetic	phonetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 investigations	amod
12	investigations	investigation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 linguistic	conj
13	among	among	ADP	_	16 Abenakis	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Abenakis	det
15	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Abenakis	amod
16	Abenakis	Abenaki	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 devoted	obl
17	than	than	ADP	_	21 study	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 study	case
19	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 study	amod
20	mythological	mythological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 study	amod
21	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devoted	obl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 feel	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 feel	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 which	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	29 feel	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 feel	nsubj
29	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 devoted	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 interest	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 deep	advmod
32	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 interest	amod
33	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feel	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	devote	present · perfect · passive		My own researches	among the Canadian Abenakis; than comparative mythological study; more linguistic and phonetic investigations obj	tree rules
2	feel	present	I	a deep interest	which obj; however property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme interest=Eventuality
3	research		My			nom research «act 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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 16