Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 49
The trick is probably done by some peculiar way of stooping, or is merely suggested, possibly by means of hypnotic influence.
Who acts: peculiar way · What happens: do, stoop, suggest, mean · To what, where: trick
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 (peculiar way), 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 | 2 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | det |
| 8 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 stooping | mark |
| 11 | stooping | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 suggested | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 suggested | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suggested | aux:pass |
| 15 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 16 suggested | advmod |
| 16 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 done | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 18 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 20 means | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 means | case |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 influence | case |
| 22 | hypnotic | hypnotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 influence | amod |
| 23 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | some peculiar way | the trick | probably property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | stoop | gerund | some peculiar way not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | present · passive | some peculiar way not said here | merely property | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | of hypnotic influence; possibly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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