Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 177
Michihant, “devil” (P.); a combination of _michi_, “bad” = A. _maji_ + _hant_, the same stem seen in A. _Madahoñdo_, “demon.”
Who acts: _ · What happens: hant, see · To what, where: same stem, A., Michihant
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | Michihant | Michihant | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | appos |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 devil | punct |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 P. | punct |
| 7 | P. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 devil | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 P. | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 combination | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 combination | det |
| 11 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 michi | case |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 of | punct |
| 14 | michi | michi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 combination | nmod |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Michihant | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Michihant | parataxis |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bad | punct |
| 20 | = | = | SYM | _ | 21 A. | punct |
| 21 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | conj |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 maji | punct |
| 23 | maji | maji | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 hant | punct |
| 25 | + | + | SYM | _ | 26 _ | cc |
| 26 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hant | nsubj |
| 27 | hant | hant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Michihant | conj |
| 28 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 hant | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stem | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 stem | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stem | amod |
| 32 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | appos |
| 33 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 stem | acl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 A. | case |
| 35 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 seen | obl |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Madahoñdo | punct |
| 37 | Madahoñdo | Madahoñdo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | appos |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Madahoñdo | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 demon | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 demon | punct |
| 41 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michihant | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 demon | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 demon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hant | present | _ | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | participle | the same stem not said here | A. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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