Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 60
“The Micmacs although more numerous than their enemies, were inferior warriors, so that the victory was always won (_sic!
Who acts: Micmacs · What happens: be, win · To what, where: inferior warriors, victory
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 (Micmacs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 warriors | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Micmacs | det |
| 3 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 warriors | nsubj |
| 4 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 numerous | mark |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 numerous | advmod |
| 6 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Micmacs | acl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 enemies | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 numerous | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Micmacs | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 warriors | cop |
| 12 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warriors | amod |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 won | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 won | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 victory | det |
| 18 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 won | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 won | aux:pass |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 won | advmod |
| 21 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 warriors | parataxis |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 sic | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 sic | punct |
| 24 | sic | sic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 won | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 warriors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the Micmacs | inferior warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past · passive | the victory | always property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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