Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 22, sentence 9
It is quite certain that many readers will welcome Flaxius as a philosopher seeking _la vraie verité_, a philosopher whose sympathy is very human, and who has in spite of all his erudition ... something of the naïve spontaneous pen of his Teutonic rival, Hans Breitmann.”
Who acts: chapter, many readers, philosopher, sympathy · What happens: be, welcome, seek, have, spite · To what, where: Flaxius, la verité, spite, erudition
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 (chapter, many readers, philosopher, sympathy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 certain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 certain | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 certain | advmod |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 welcome | mark |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 readers | amod |
| 7 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 welcome | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 welcome | aux |
| 9 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 certain | advcl |
| 10 | Flaxius | Flaxius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 welcome | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 philosopher | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 philosopher | det |
| 13 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 welcome | obl |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 philosopher | acl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 verité | punct |
| 16 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 verité | compound |
| 17 | vraie | vraie | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 la | flat:foreign |
| 18 | verité | verité | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeking | obl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 philosopher | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 philosopher | det |
| 22 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 certain | appos |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 sympathy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 human | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 human | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 human | advmod |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 philosopher | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 has | cc |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 human | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 spite | case |
| 33 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 erudition | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 erudition | det:predet |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 erudition | nmod:poss |
| 37 | erudition | erudition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spite | nmod |
| 38 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 39 something | punct |
| 39 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 spite | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 pen | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pen | det |
| 42 | naïve | naïve | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pen | amod |
| 43 | spontaneous | spontaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 pen | amod |
| 44 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 something | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 rival | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 rival | nmod:poss |
| 47 | Teutonic | teutonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 rival | amod |
| 48 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pen | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Hans | punct |
| 50 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 pen | appos |
| 51 | Breitmann | Breitmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Hans | flat |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 certain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | chapter | a philosopher appos; certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | welcome | future | many readers | Flaxius | as a philosopher | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent flaxius=Theme as philosopher=Attribute | |||
| 3 | seek | gerund | a philosopher not said here | la verité | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | sympathy | human property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | spite of FLAXIUS's erudition something of the naïve spontaneous pen of FLAXIUS's Teutonic rival | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | spite | FLAXIUS's erudition | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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