Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 60
The fact that a giant ghoul desires to eat the Delaware old man is, however, a distinctly Algonkin feature, quite in accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies, Penobscots and Micmacs regarding the _Kiwaʿkw-Chînu_.
Who acts: giant ghoul, fact, accord · What happens: desire, eat, be, regard · To what, where: fact, old man, distinctly Algonkin feature, Kiwaʿkw
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 (giant ghoul, fact, accord), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feature | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 desires | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ghoul | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ghoul | amod |
| 6 | ghoul | ghoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 desires | nsubj |
| 7 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 desires | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | Delaware | delaware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 feature | cop |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 feature | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feature | det |
| 19 | distinctly | distinctly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feature | amod |
| 20 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 feature | compound |
| 21 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 accord | punct |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 accord | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 accord | case |
| 25 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feature | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 prevalent | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prevalent | det |
| 28 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prevalent | compound |
| 29 | prevalent | prevalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 accord | nmod |
| 30 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 Passamaquoddies | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 32 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 prevalent | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Penobscots | punct |
| 34 | Penobscots | penobscot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Micmacs | cc |
| 36 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 37 | regarding | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 accord | acl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Kiwaʿkw | det |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 40 | Kiwaʿkw | Kiwaʿkw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 regarding | obj |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Chînu | punct |
| 42 | Chînu | Chînu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Kiwaʿkw | conj |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 40 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 feature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | a giant ghoul | the fact not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | a giant ghoul not said here | the old man | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the fact | a distinctly Algonkin feature and accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs | accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs conj; however property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | regard | gerund | accord with the ideas prevalent among the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs not said here | the Kiwaʿkw and Chînu | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiwaʿkw=Theme |
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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