Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 50
Leland compares here, however, the Old Norse statements regarding their wizards, who occasionally sank into the ground and who had power to pass through earth with the same ease as through air or water (Algonquin Legends, p. 342).
Who acts: Leland, Old Norse statements, power · What happens: compare, regard, sink, have, pass · To what, where: ground, power, Algonquin Legends, earth
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 (Leland, Old Norse statements, power), 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 | Leland | Leland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 compares | nsubj |
| 2 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 compares | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 statements | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 statements | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 statements | det |
| 8 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 statements | amod |
| 9 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 statements | amod |
| 10 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compares | parataxis |
| 11 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wizards | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wizards | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 statements | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sank | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sank | nsubj |
| 16 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 17 sank | advmod |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 statements | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sank | conj |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pass | mark |
| 26 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pass | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 ease | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ease | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ease | amod |
| 32 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pass | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 pass | advmod |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 air | case |
| 35 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pass | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 water | cc |
| 37 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 air | conj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 Legends | punct |
| 39 | Algonquin | Algonquin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Legends | compound |
| 40 | Legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pass | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 p. | punct |
| 42 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Legends | appos |
| 43 | 342 | 342 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 p. | flat |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 p. | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | Leland | here | the Old Norse statements regard statements's wizards parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | the Old Norse statements regard statements's wizards | the ground | occasionally property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | past | power | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass | to-infinitive | power not said here | Algonquin Legends | earth | with the same ease; through air or water | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through earth=Initial_Location through air=Destination |
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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