Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 23
Mikchik the Turtle appears in all the legends as a perfect Panurge or Falstaff, a worthless old scamp, who is nevertheless liked by everybody and privileged.
Who acts: Mikchik, everybody · What happens: appear, like · To what, where: legends, worthless old scamp
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 (Mikchik, everybody), 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 | Mikchik | Mikchik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turtle | det |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mikchik | appos |
| 4 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 legends | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 legends | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legends | det |
| 8 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appears | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Panurge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Panurge | det |
| 11 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Panurge | amod |
| 12 | Panurge | Panurge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 legends | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Falstaff | cc |
| 14 | Falstaff | Falstaff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Panurge | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scamp | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scamp | det |
| 17 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scamp | amod |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scamp | amod |
| 19 | scamp | scamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Panurge | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 liked | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 liked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 liked | aux:pass |
| 23 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 24 liked | advmod |
| 24 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 scamp | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 everybody | case |
| 26 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 liked | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 privileged | cc |
| 28 | privileged | privileged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 everybody | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Mikchik | all legends as a perfect Panurge or Falstaff | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in legend=Location | ||||
| 2 | like | present · passive | everybody | a worthless old scamp | nevertheless property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
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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