Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
Truly all snakes are evil, But worst among them all Is the Rattlesnake their master.
Who acts: snakes · What happens: be · To what, where: Rattlesnake
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 (snakes), 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 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 evil | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 snakes | det |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 evil | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 evil | cop |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 worst | punct |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 worst | cc |
| 8 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 evil | conj |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worst | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Rattlesnake | det |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Rattlesnake | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rattlesnake | det |
| 14 | Rattlesnake | Rattlesnake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worst | obj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rattlesnake | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 evil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all snakes | evil, truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | all snakes not said here | among Passamaquoddy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | all Rattlesnake | RATTLESNAKES's master appos | 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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