Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 314
Owing to lack of space, this Glossary contains only the most important Indian words which appear in the English text.
Who acts: Glossary, important Indian words · What happens: owe, lack, contain, appear · To what, where: important Indian words, English text
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 (Glossary, important Indian words), 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 | Owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 contains | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 lack | mark |
| 3 | lack | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Owing | xcomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 space | case |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lack | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Owing | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Glossary | det |
| 8 | Glossary | Glossary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 contains | nsubj |
| 9 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 words | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 important | advmod |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 14 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 contains | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 appear | nsubj |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 words | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 text | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 text | det |
| 20 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 text | amod |
| 21 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appear | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lack | to-infinitive | of space | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | contain | present | this Glossary | the important Indian words | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | present | the important Indian words | the English text | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in text=Location |
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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