Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 11
“The prose which is nearly all the book is a continued delight and surprise in its humorous ideas, as well as in its more pitiful and thoughtful moods.”
Who acts: prose · What happens: be, continue · To what, where: book, continued delight
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prose), 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 delight | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prose | det |
| 3 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delight | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 book | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 book | cop |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 all | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 book | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prose | acl:relcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 delight | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 delight | det |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 delight | amod |
| 13 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 surprise | cc |
| 15 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 delight | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ideas | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ideas | nmod:poss |
| 18 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ideas | amod |
| 19 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surprise | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moods | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 moods | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 as | fixed |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 moods | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 moods | nmod:poss |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 pitiful | advmod |
| 27 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moods | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thoughtful | cc |
| 29 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pitiful | conj |
| 30 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ideas | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 delight | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the prose | all book | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the prose | a continued delight and surprise in prose's humorous ideas as prose's pitiful moods | surprise in prose's humorous ideas as prose's pitiful moods conj | tree rules |
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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