Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 48
Rink states that this is not an unusual feat among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo, who frequently sink into rocky and frozen ground “as if in snow.”
Who acts: you, this, conjurers · What happens: rink, not be, sink · To what, where: states, unusual feat, rocky 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 (you, this, conjurers), 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 | Rink | rink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rink | obj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 feat | mark |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 feat | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feat | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feat | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feat | det |
| 8 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feat | amod |
| 9 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rink | xcomp |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 conjurers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conjurers | det |
| 12 | conjurers | conjurer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feat | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Eskimo | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Eskimo | det |
| 15 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Eskimo | compound |
| 16 | Eskimo | Eskimo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 conjurers | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sink | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sink | nsubj |
| 19 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 20 sink | advmod |
| 20 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 conjurers | parataxis |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 22 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ground | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 frozen | cc |
| 24 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rocky | conj |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sink | obl |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 snow | punct |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 snow | case |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 snow | mark |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 snow | case |
| 30 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sink | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rink | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rink | imperative | you not said here | states | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | this | a unusual feat | among the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sink | present | the conjurers of the Greenland Eskimo | rocky ground | snow conj; frequently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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