Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 52
It should be noticed that in the following tale, my Passamaquoddy authority did not see the actual feat, but only the deep tracks of the wizard where he had sunk into the earth “the night before.”
Who acts: Passamaquoddy authority, authority · What happens: notice, follow, not see, sink · To what, where: power, actual feat, following tale, 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 (Passamaquoddy authority, authority), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 authority | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 authority | compound |
| 13 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 noticed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 feat | det |
| 18 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feat | amod |
| 19 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tracks | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 tracks | cc |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 tracks | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tracks | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tracks | amod |
| 25 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 noticed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wizard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wizard | det |
| 28 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tracks | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 sunk | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sunk | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sunk | aux |
| 32 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 wizard | acl:relcl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sunk | obl |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 night | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 night | det |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sunk | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | before | before | ADV | _ | 38 night | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | should · passive | power | the deep tracks of the wizard obl | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | my Passamaquoddy authority | the actual feat | the following tale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feat=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect | authority | the earth | night | 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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