Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 35
Kulóskap is called the deceiver, not because he deceives or injures man, but because he is clever enough to lead his enemies astray, the highest possible virtue to the early American mind.
Who acts: Kulóskap · What happens: call, not deceive, injure, be, lead · To what, where: Kulóskap, man, enemies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deceiver | det |
| 5 | deceiver | deceiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deceives | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 deceives | advmod |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 deceives | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 deceives | nsubj |
| 10 | deceives | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | parataxis |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 injures | cc |
| 12 | injures | injure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deceives | conj |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 injures | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clever | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 clever | cc |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 clever | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clever | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 clever | cop |
| 19 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deceives | conj |
| 20 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 19 clever | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lead | mark |
| 22 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 clever | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lead | obj |
| 25 | astray | astray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lead | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 virtue | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 virtue | det |
| 28 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 virtue | amod |
| 29 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 virtue | amod |
| 30 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deceives | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 mind | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mind | det |
| 33 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mind | amod |
| 34 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mind | amod |
| 35 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 virtue | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · passive | Kulóskap | the deceiver xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not deceive | present | Kulóskap | the highest possible virtue to the early American mind conj | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | injure | present | Kulóskap not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Kulóskap | clever, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lead | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | Kulóskap's enemies | astray property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
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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