Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 63
The _Kiwaʿkw_, however, as remarked above, was often an evil being.
Who acts: Kiwaʿkw · What happens: remark, be · To what, where: Kiwaʿkw, evil
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 (Kiwaʿkw), 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 | 3 Kiwaʿkw | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 3 | Kiwaʿkw | Kiwaʿkw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 evil | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 remarked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 remarked | mark |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Kiwaʿkw | acl:relcl |
| 10 | above | above | ADV | _ | 9 remarked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 evil | cop |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 evil | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 evil | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 evil | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 evil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | the Kiwaʿkw not said here | above, however property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Kiwaʿkw | a evil | often property | tree rules |
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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