Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
The tendency of Kulóskap, in spite of his name, was essentially benevolent.
Who acts: tendency, Kulóskap · What happens: be, tend, spite, name · To what, where: name
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 (tendency, Kulóskap), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tendency | det |
| 2 | tendency | tendency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 benevolent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Kulóskap | case |
| 4 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tendency | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spite | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spite | case |
| 7 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tendency | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tendency | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 benevolent | cop |
| 13 | essentially | essentially | ADV | _ | 14 benevolent | advmod |
| 14 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 benevolent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tendency of Kulóskap and spite of Kulóskap's name | benevolent, essentially property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tend | Kulóskap | nom tendency «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | spite | Kulóskap's name | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | name | Kulóskap | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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