Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 7
Flaxius breaks a lance for Jezebel and also for Herodias with graceful impartiality.
Who acts: Flaxius · What happens: break · To what, where: lance
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 (Flaxius), 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 | Flaxius | Flaxius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lance | det |
| 4 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Jezebel | case |
| 6 | Jezebel | Jezebel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lance | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Herodias | cc |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 Herodias | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Herodias | case |
| 10 | Herodias | Herodias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Jezebel | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 impartiality | case |
| 12 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 impartiality | amod |
| 13 | impartiality | impartiality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Flaxius | a lance | for Jezebel and Herodias; with graceful impartiality | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lance=Patient with impartiality=Instrument |
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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