Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
Wabanaki mythology was really pure Shamanism, seeing a spirit in every tree and waterfall, and a malignant or benevolent influence in many animals.
Who acts: pure Shamanism · What happens: be, see · To what, where: pure Shamanism, spirit, tree
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 (pure Shamanism), 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 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mythology | compound |
| 2 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shamanism | nmod:desc |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Shamanism | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 Shamanism | advmod |
| 5 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Shamanism | amod |
| 6 | Shamanism | Shamanism | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Shamanism | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waterfall | cc |
| 15 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 influence | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 influence | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 influence | det |
| 19 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 influence | amod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 benevolent | cc |
| 21 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 malignant | conj |
| 22 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shamanism | appos |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 animals | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 animals | amod |
| 25 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 influence | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Shamanism | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pure Shamanism | Wabanaki mythology nmod:desc; a malignant influence in many animals appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | pure Shamanism not said here | a spirit | every tree and waterfall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
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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