Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 95
It seems to have been customary in early times to burn a mark or rude figure on a stick, suggestive of a sentence or idea.
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, be, burn · To what, where: customary, mark, stick
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 customary | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 customary | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 customary | cop |
| 6 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 customary | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 burn | mark |
| 11 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seems | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mark | det |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burn | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 figure | cc |
| 15 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 figure | amod |
| 16 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stick | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stick | det |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burn | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suggestive | punct |
| 21 | suggestive | suggestive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stick | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sentence | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sentence | det |
| 24 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suggestive | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 idea | cc |
| 26 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sentence | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | customary | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive | a mark or rude figure | a stick | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
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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