Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

It is not impossible, however, that in these hideous tales we have some relic of far distant prehistoric days when huge serpents were not unknown.

Who acts: we, huge serpents · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: relic, hideous tales

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 (we, huge serpents), 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 impossible	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 impossible	advmod
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	4 impossible	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tales	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 tales	det
11	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tales	amod
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obl
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 relic	det
16	relic	relic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 days	case
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 distant	advmod
19	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
20	prehistoric	prehistoric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 relic	nmod
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 unknown	mark
23	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 serpents	amod
24	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 unknown	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unknown	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 unknown	advmod
27	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 have	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present				however, impossible property	tree rules
2	have	present	we	some relic of distant prehistoric days	this hideous tales		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relic=Patient
3	not is	past	huge serpents			unknown 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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 70