Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 123
So the great Lord perceived That of all creatures born Who walked upon the earth The first and best was Man.
Who acts: great Lord, creatures · What happens: perceive, bear, walk, be · To what, where: That, creatures, earth, best Man
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Lord, creatures), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lord | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lord | amod |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 perceived | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 creatures | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 creatures | det |
| 9 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 That | nmod |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 creatures | acl |
| 11 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 first | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 earth | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Man | cc |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 Man | amod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Man | cop |
| 21 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 first | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the great Lord | That of all creatures | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | all creatures not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | all creatures | the earth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | all creatures not said here | best Man | 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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