Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 120
Wolf, the lesser one, As his brother was good So was this one bad; One, the Lord of Light, One, of Darkness dire.
Who acts: brother, this · What happens: be · To what, where: lesser one
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, this), 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 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 7 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 good | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 good | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 good | cop |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | conj |
| 12 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 bad | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bad | cop |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 bad | nsubj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 bad | nummod |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 good | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 One | punct |
| 18 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lord | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lord | det |
| 21 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 One | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Light | case |
| 23 | Light | Light | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lord | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 One | punct |
| 25 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 One | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Darkness | punct |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Darkness | case |
| 28 | Darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 One | appos |
| 29 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Darkness | amod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wolf's brother | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this | bad 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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