Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
The wonderful song of _Nipon_, the summer, and the truly tender legend of the loves of the Leaf and the Firebird will serve still further to illustrate the purity of Passamaquoddy thought and diction.
Who acts: Firebird, purity, Nipon · What happens: love, serve, illustrate, think, sing · To what, where: wonderful song
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 (Firebird, purity, Nipon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Nipon | case |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 6 | Nipon | Nipon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 song | nmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nipon | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summer | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 summer | det |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Nipon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 legend | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 legend | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 legend | det |
| 14 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 15 tender | advmod |
| 15 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legend | amod |
| 16 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 song | conj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 loves | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loves | det |
| 19 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 legend | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Leaf | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Leaf | det |
| 22 | Leaf | Leaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 loves | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 serve | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Firebird | det |
| 25 | Firebird | firebird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 serve | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 serve | aux |
| 27 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 loves | conj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 further | advmod |
| 29 | further | further | ADV | _ | 27 serve | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 illustrate | mark |
| 31 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 serve | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 purity | det |
| 33 | purity | purity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Passamaquoddy | case |
| 35 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 purity | nmod |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 illustrate | advcl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 diction | cc |
| 38 | diction | diction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | of the Leaf | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | serve | future | the Firebird | still | further property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | illustrate | to-infinitive | the Firebird not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the purity of Passamaquoddy | diction conj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sing | Nipon | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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