Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
The following collection of songs, mostly from Micmac sources, bearing especially on the doings of Kulóskap, has been arranged by Mr. Leland and myself into a sort of epic embracing all the native lore known to us concerning this personage.
Who acts: Micmac sources, Leland, us · What happens: follow, bear, arrange, embrace, lore, know · To what, where: doings, following collection, sort, epic native lore, personage
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 (Micmac sources, Leland, us), 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 | 3 collection | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 collection | amod |
| 3 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 songs | case |
| 5 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collection | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sources | punct |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 10 sources | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sources | case |
| 9 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sources | compound |
| 10 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 songs | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bearing | punct |
| 12 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sources | acl |
| 13 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 bearing | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 doings | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doings | det |
| 16 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bearing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kulóskap | case |
| 18 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 doings | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 collection | punct |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 arranged | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 arranged | aux:pass |
| 22 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 Leland | case |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Leland | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Leland | Leland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 arranged | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 myself | cc |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 Leland | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 sort | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 sort | det |
| 30 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arranged | obl |
| 31 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 lore | mark |
| 32 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lore | amod |
| 33 | embracing | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 lore | nsubj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 lore | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lore | det |
| 36 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lore | amod |
| 37 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sort | nmod |
| 38 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 lore | acl |
| 39 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 41 concerning | mark |
| 40 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 concerning | nsubj |
| 41 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 known | advcl |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 personage | det |
| 43 | personage | personage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 concerning | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | Micmac sources not said here | the doings of Kulóskap | especially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | arrange | present · perfect · passive | Leland Mr. myself | the following collection of songs and Micmac sources | a sort | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent subject=Material into sort=Product | |||
| 4 | embrace | gerund | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lore | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | know | participle | all epic native lore not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | concern | gerund | us | this personage | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus personage=Experiencer |
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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