Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
Yet it was not because this man, Whose name in Micmac is Mikchik And in our Passamaquoddy Chikwenóchk “the Turtle,” Was great or well favored or rich; He was truly none of these, Being very poor and lazy, No longer young or lively, Nor in any way clever or wise.
Who acts: life, Mikchik, Master, man · What happens: not be, be, favor, name · To what, where: Mikchik, none, Micmac
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, Mikchik, Master, man), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 Mikchik | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Mikchik | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Mikchik | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 Mikchik | advmod |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 Mikchik | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Mikchik | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
| 9 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Micmac | case |
| 12 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Mikchik | cop |
| 14 | Mikchik | Mikchik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 great | nsubj |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Chikwenóchk | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Chikwenóchk | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Chikwenóchk | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chikwenóchk | compound |
| 19 | Chikwenóchk | Chikwenóchk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mikchik | conj |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Turtle | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Turtle | det |
| 22 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chikwenóchk | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chikwenóchk | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chikwenóchk | punct |
| 25 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 great | cop |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 favored | cc |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 favored | advmod |
| 29 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 great | conj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 rich | cc |
| 31 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 favored | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 none | punct |
| 33 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 none | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 none | cop |
| 35 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 36 none | advmod |
| 36 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 great | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 these | case |
| 38 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 none | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 poor | punct |
| 40 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 poor | cop |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 poor | advmod |
| 42 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 none | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 lazy | cc |
| 44 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 poor | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 young | punct |
| 46 | No | no | ADV | _ | 47 longer | advmod |
| 47 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 48 young | advmod |
| 48 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 poor | conj |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 lively | cc |
| 50 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 young | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Nor | punct |
| 52 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 none | conj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 way | case |
| 54 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 55 way | det |
| 55 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Nor | appos |
| 56 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 way | xcomp |
| 57 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 58 wise | cc |
| 58 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 clever | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | life | Mikchik and our Passamaquoddy Chikwenóchk and the Turtle | this man nsubj; our Passamaquoddy Chikwenóchk and the Turtle conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Mikchik and our Passamaquoddy Chikwenóchk and the Turtle | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | favor | participle | Mikchik and our Passamaquoddy Chikwenóchk and the Turtle not said here | well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Master | none | of these; Nor conj; truly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | gerund | poor property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | be | long property | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | name | this man | Micmac | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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