Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 22
[28] It is usual to give as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation.
Who acts: 28, politeness terms · What happens: be, give, matter, term · To what, where: consanguinity
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (28, politeness terms), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 usual | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 usual | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 usual | cop |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 usual | xcomp |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 11 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 matter | amod |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 terms | case |
| 14 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 terms | compound |
| 15 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 matter | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 consanguinity | case |
| 17 | consanguinity | consanguinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 terms | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 persons | case |
| 19 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 consanguinity | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 conversation | case |
| 21 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 persons | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 usual | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 28 | It nsubj; usual property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | 28 not said here | as a mere matter of politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | matter | politeness terms of consanguinity to persons in conversation | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | term | consanguinity to persons in conversation | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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