Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 13
Truly it is one of the daintiest, quaintest, most frolicsome, and at the same time most spiritual of _jeux d’esprit_.”--The (London) _Free Lance_.
Who acts: whole · What happens: be · To what, where: one
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 (whole), 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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daintiest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daintiest | det |
| 7 | daintiest | dainty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quaintest | punct |
| 9 | quaintest | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 daintiest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frolicsome | punct |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 frolicsome | amod |
| 12 | frolicsome | frolicsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quaintest | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 d’esprit | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 d’esprit | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 d’esprit | obl |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 spiritual | advmod |
| 20 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 d’esprit | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jeux | case |
| 22 | _ | _ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 jeux | nummod |
| 23 | jeux | jeux | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spiritual | obl |
| 24 | d’esprit | d'esprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 d’esprit | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 d’esprit | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 d’esprit | punct |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 London | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 London | det |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 London | punct |
| 31 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 London | punct |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Lance | punct |
| 34 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Lance | amod |
| 35 | Lance | Lance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | appos |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Lance | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | whole | one | of the daintiest; spiritual d’esprit at the same time appos; the London appos; Free Lance appos; truly property | 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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