Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 183
_miʿkumwessuk_; a small spirit normally, which has the power, however, of increasing its stature at will.
Who acts: small spirit · What happens: have, increase · To what, where: power, stature, small spirit
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 (small spirit), 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 | _ | 2 miʿkumwessuk | punct |
| 2 | miʿkumwessuk | miʿkumwessuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 miʿkumwessuk | punct |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 spirit | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 7 spirit | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spirit | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 however | punct |
| 15 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 has | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 increasing | punct |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 increasing | mark |
| 18 | increasing | increase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 has | advcl |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stature | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increasing | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 will | case |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 increasing | aux |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a small spirit miʿkumwessuk | the power | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 2 | increase | future | a small spirit miʿkumwessuk not said here | miʿkumwessuk's stature | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer stature=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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