Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 6, sentence 69
If the medicine Is really what I required It cannot lose its power.
Who acts: medicine, I · What happens: be, require, not lose · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medicine, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 what | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 medicine | det |
| 3 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 4 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 required | nsubj |
| 8 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lose | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lose | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lose | advmod |
| 12 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 required | ccomp |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lose | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the medicine | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | require | past | I | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | not lose | can | medicine | medicine's power | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
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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