Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
I need hardly comment on the first two and the fourth of these wonders, as they are common among all Shamanistic conjurers, but the third phenomenon, the power to sink into hard ground while walking, is, I believe, characteristically American.
Who acts: I, comment · What happens: need, be, sink, walk · To what, where: comment, first two, hard ground
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 (I, comment), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 comment | advmod |
| 4 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 two | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 two | amod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 comment | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fourth | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fourth | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comment | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wonders | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 wonders | det |
| 14 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fourth | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 common | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 common | case |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 common | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 common | cop |
| 19 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 need | conj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 conjurers | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 conjurers | det |
| 22 | Shamanistic | shamanistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 conjurers | amod |
| 23 | conjurers | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 common | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 believe | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 believe | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 phenomenon | det |
| 27 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 phenomenon | amod |
| 28 | phenomenon | phenomenon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 believe | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 power | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 power | det |
| 31 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 phenomenon | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sink | mark |
| 33 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 power | acl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 ground | case |
| 35 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ground | amod |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sink | obl |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 walking | mark |
| 38 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 sink | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 phenomenon | punct |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 believe | cop |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 is | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 believe | nsubj |
| 43 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 American | punct |
| 45 | characteristically | characteristically | ADV | _ | 46 American | advmod |
| 46 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 believe | parataxis |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | I | comment and the fourth of this wonders | the first two | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot comment=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | comment | among all Shamanistic conjurers; common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sink | to-infinitive | I not said here | hard ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | I | the third phenomenon and the power parataxis; believe property | tree rules |
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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