Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 23
Chief Montour is a highly intelligent and well educated Indian who takes a deep interest in the language and lore of his tribe.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: be, take · To what, where: deep interest, language
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 (Chief), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 intelligent | nsubj |
| 2 | Montour | Montour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 intelligent | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 intelligent | det |
| 5 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 6 intelligent | advmod |
| 6 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Indian | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 Indian | advmod |
| 9 | educated | educated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Indian | amod |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 intelligent | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 intelligent | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 interest | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 interest | amod |
| 15 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 language | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 language | det |
| 18 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 takes | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lore | cc |
| 20 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 language | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tribe | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lore | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 intelligent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chief | highly, intelligent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Chief not said here | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | present | a deep interest | the language and lore of Moraviantown's tribe | who nsubj | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in language=Location |
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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