Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 41
Like most barbaric races, these people were also fervent believers in witchcraft, a superstition which still survives in the minds of many of the older Indians.
Who acts: people, superstition · What happens: be, survive, mind · To what, where: fervent believers, witchcraft, minds, many older Indians
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 (people, superstition), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 races | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 races | amod |
| 3 | barbaric | barbaric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 races | amod |
| 4 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believers | punct |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 believers | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 believers | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 believers | advmod |
| 10 | fervent | fervent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 believers | amod |
| 11 | believers | believer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 races | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 witchcraft | case |
| 13 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believers | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 superstition | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 superstition | det |
| 16 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 witchcraft | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 survives | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 survives | advmod |
| 19 | survives | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 superstition | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 minds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 minds | det |
| 22 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 survives | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Indians | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Indians | amod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Indians | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Indians | det |
| 27 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 Indians | amod |
| 28 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 minds | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 races | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this people | fervent believers | witchcraft | tree rules | |||
| 2 | survive | present | a superstition | the minds of the many older Indians | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | |||
| 4 | mind | the many older Indians | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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