Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
In the present work I have had the pleasant task of arranging and editing Mr. Leland’s material, to which I have added some of my own collections.
Who acts: I, pleasant task · What happens: have, arrange, edit, add · To what, where: pleasant task, present work, material, some
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, pleasant task), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 work | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 work | det |
| 3 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | aux |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 task | det |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 task | amod |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 arranging | mark |
| 12 | arranging | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 task | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 editing | cc |
| 14 | editing | edit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 arranging | conj |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Leland | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Leland | Leland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 material | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Leland | case |
| 18 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 editing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 added | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 added | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 added | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 added | aux |
| 24 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 had | conj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 added | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 collections | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 collections | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 collections | amod |
| 29 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 some | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | the pleasant task | the present work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient | |||
| 2 | arrange | gerund | the pleasant task not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | edit | gerund | the pleasant task not said here | Leland Mr.'s material | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present · perfect | I | some of my own collections | which obl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent some=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
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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