Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 8, sentence 40
It is said he was the uncle Of Kulóskap, but many declare It was only by adoption.
Who acts: Master, many, life · What happens: say, be, declare · To what, where: life, uncle · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Master, many, life), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 uncle | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uncle | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 uncle | det |
| 7 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kulóskap | case |
| 9 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 uncle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 declare | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 declare | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 declare | nsubj |
| 13 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 adoption | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 adoption | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 adoption | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 adoption | case |
| 18 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declare | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Master | the uncle | of Kulóskap | tree rules | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | present | many | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | life | by adoption | 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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