Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 69
These may seem strange coming from a land where there are no ophidians large enough to warrant such a superstition.
Who acts: These · What happens: seem, come, warrant · To what, where: land, superstition
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 (These), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seem | aux |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 strange | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 are | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 land | acl:relcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 ophidians | det |
| 13 | ophidians | ophidian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 are | nsubj |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ophidians | amod |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 warrant | mark |
| 17 | warrant | warrant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 large | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 superstition | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 superstition | det |
| 20 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warrant | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | may | These | strange property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | These not said here | a land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | warrant | to-infinitive | These not said here | such superstition | 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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