Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 88
Let then our labor in this work suffice merely to present to the English-speaking public a few interesting and characteristic specimens of the traditions of a rapidly perishing race--a race which fifty years from now will have hardly a single living representative.
Who acts: you, labor · What happens: let, suffice, present, speak, perish, have · To what, where: few interesting specimens, speaking public, race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, labor), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 suffice | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 labor | nmod:poss |
| 4 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffice | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 labor | nmod |
| 8 | suffice | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 11 present | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 present | mark |
| 11 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 public | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 public | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 speaking | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 English | punct |
| 16 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 public | amod |
| 17 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 present | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 specimens | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 specimens | amod |
| 20 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 specimens | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 characteristic | cc |
| 22 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 interesting | conj |
| 23 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 present | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 traditions | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 traditions | det |
| 26 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 specimens | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 race | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 race | det |
| 29 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 30 perishing | advmod |
| 30 | perishing | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 race | amod |
| 31 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 traditions | nmod |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 race | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 race | det |
| 34 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 race | appos |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 have | obj |
| 36 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 years | nummod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 have | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 now | case |
| 39 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 have | obl |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | aux |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 race | acl:relcl |
| 42 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 46 representative | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 representative | det |
| 44 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 representative | amod |
| 45 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 representative | compound |
| 46 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suffice | present | our labor in this work | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | you not said here | a few interesting specimens of the traditions of a perishing race | the speaking public | merely property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme to public=Recipient | ||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | perish | gerund | rapidly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | have | future | a race | year | a single living representative obj | 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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